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Protein Switch Dictates Cellular Fate: Stem Cell or Neuron

February 13, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that a well-known protein has a new function: It acts in a biological circuit to determine whether an immature neural cell remains in a stem-like state or proceeds to become a functional neuron.

Sweet! How Glycogen is Linked to Heat Generation in Fat Cells

October 27, 2021

University of California San Diego researchers, with international colleagues, describe how energy expenditure and heat production are regulated in obesity through a previously unknown cellular pathway.

Damage Control: Recovering From Radiation and Chemotherapy

April 30, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that a protein called beta-catenin plays a critical, and previously unappreciated, role in promoting recovery of stricken hematopoietic stem cells after radiation exposure.

UC San Diego/SDSC Study Advances Brain Cancer Research

February 11, 2015

Researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), Moores Cancer Center, and Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego, have shown for the first time a pyramid hierarchical network of “coherent gene modules” that regulate glioblastoma genes, involved in a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.

Four UC San Diego Faculty Receive NIH New Innovator Awards

October 6, 2015

Four professors at UC San Diego will receive New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health of approximately $2.2 million over the next five years to support their “unusually innovative research,” the NIH announced today.

Leukemia Drug Shows Promise for Treating a Childhood Brain Cancer

September 20, 2019

Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego researchers describe new use of leukemia drug, nilotinib, to treat subtype of medulloblastoma, a deadly pediatric brain cancer.

Surprise Finding Points to DNA’s Role in Shaping Cells

February 8, 2018

Working at the intersection of biology and physics, scientists at UC San Diego have made a surprising discovery at the root of cell formation. They found that DNA executes an unexpected architectural role in shaping the cells of bacteria. Studying the bacterium Bacillus subtilis, the researchers used an array of…

Fate of the Heart: Researchers Track Cellular Events Leading to Cardiac Regeneration

June 19, 2013

…San Diego School of Medicine visually monitored the dynamic cellular events that take place when cardiac regeneration occurs in zebrafish after cardiac ventricular injury. Their findings provide evidence that various cell lines in the heart are more plastic, or capable of transformation into new cell types, than previously thought.

Live and Let-7: MicroRNA Plays Surprising Role in Cell Survival

October 7, 2014

…the emerging recognition that non-coding RNAs help regulate basic cellular processes and may be key to developing new drugs and therapies.

Ambitious Project to Understand Cellular Evolution Underway

October 6, 2020

Project focuses on lipids (fat molecules) as the starting point to understand the evolution of eukaryotic cells, carrying implications for human health and disease

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