May 23, 2024
UC San Diego biologists have provided new insights on a longstanding puzzle in biology: How complex organisms arise from a single fertilized cell. Producing a new “gene atlas” with 4D imaging, the researchers captured unprecedented insights on how embryonic development unfolds.
April 30, 2013
The National Academy of Sciences today elected three professors at the University of California, San Diego to membership in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on U.S. scientists and engineers.
November 2, 2017
…yeast, which allowed the researchers to track chromatin silencing in unprecedented detail through generations during aging, the UC San Diego scientists discovered that a complete loss of such silencing leads to accelerated cell aging and death. However, the researchers similarly found that continuous chromatin silencing also leads cells to a…
September 30, 2015
…consortium of leading academic medical centers working to accelerate research, education and improved treatment options for people with depressive and bipolar illnesses. UC San Diego Health joins 22 other institutions in the nationwide nonprofit network.
July 22, 2024
San Diego’s only medical school earns the highest tier rating among research-intensive medical schools in the nation.
August 24, 2020
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine report that the lasting nature of inflammatory bowel disease may be due to a type of long-lived immune cell that can provoke persistent, damaging inflammation in the intestinal tract.
October 2, 2023
UC San Diego Human Milk Institute names Mitra Hooshmand, PhD, as its Executive Director. Hooshman will lead strategy and operations at the innovative research institute.
January 23, 2019
Using active genetics technology, biologists have developed the world’s first CRISPR/Cas9-based approach to control genetic inheritance in a mammal. The achievement in mice lays the groundwork for further advances based on this technology, including biomedical research on human disease.
October 18, 2012
…UC Davis’s honey bee research facility is the largest and most comprehensive state-supported agriculture facility in North America and the only one in California. HTTP Pistachio - UC Irvine UC Irvine alumnus Roy Fielding is co-founder of Apache HTTP Server Project and architect of the HTTP/1.1 protocol used worldwide for…
October 3, 2019
UC San Diego researchers investigated how a type of immune cell called a macrophage becomes specialized to the liver. Their study, published October 3, 2019 in Immunity, sets the stage for understanding how macrophage specialization gets disrupted by — or contributes to — liver disease.
