Obituary Notice: Renowned Research Physiologist Jeffrey B. Graham
December 13, 2011
Jeffrey B. Graham, a research physiologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, died of cancer at his home in San Diego Dec. 8. He was 70 years old.
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Pharming the Microbiome
January 24, 2023
The gut microbiome plays a critical but poorly understood role in how drugs work or don’t work in the body. It also presents therapeutic possibilities unto itself.
Splicing Deregulation Detected and Targeted in Type of Childhood Leukemia
March 7, 2023
UC San Diego researchers delve deep into the unknown cause of pediatric acute myeloid leukemia to identify a gene splicing dysregulation and potential target for treating the disease, which often becomes treatment-resistant.
Revealing the Secrets of Seaweeds
March 11, 2021
…of marine biotechnology and biomedicine at Scripps Oceanography and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy at UC San Diego. “Many chemicals naturally produced by our local seaweeds are unique to red algae and are not found in other organisms on our planet. So that fascinates me as a chemist and geneticist…
The Underwater Library at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
April 8, 2021
…after World War II, science’s ability to map the ocean floor led to a flurry of geological sampling. At the time when the Marine Vertebrate Collection was taking formal shape, so too did the Geological Collection. William Riedel, a renowned micropaleontologist, became the first curator of the Collection in 1955…
Compound Discovered at Sea Shows Potency against Anthrax
July 17, 2013
A team led by William Fenical at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has discovered a new chemical compound from an ocean microbe in a preliminary research finding that could one day set the stage for new treatments for anthrax and other ailments such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus…
Researchers Identify Liver Cancer Progenitor Cells Before Tumors Become Visible
October 10, 2013
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have isolated and characterized the progenitor cells that eventually give rise to malignant hepatocellular carcinoma tumors – the most common form of liver cancer. The researchers found ways to identify and isolate the HCC progenitor cells long before actual…
Scripps Scientists Awarded Nearly $5 Million to Study Triggers of Toxic Algal Blooms
October 28, 2019
Researchers are gearing up to hunt for blooms along California’s coast using a suite of technologies that can target and sample ocean microbes and sift through genetic code in real time. All of this is made possible by a new $4.9 million grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
New, Highly Accurate Algorithm Scales Ability to Assemble Complete Genomes
March 4, 2022
An international team led by computer scientists at UC San Diego has shown that a new genome assembly algorithm can vastly improve large genomes reconstruction, the process by which DNA snippets are arranged into complete genomes, which is an essential aspect of genomic sequencing.
Probing Antarctica by Land, Sea, Air, and from Earth Orbit
January 17, 2023
More than half a dozen scientists from Scripps Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center will be venturing to Antarctica for the 2022-23 field season.
