Tumor-Activated Protein Promotes Cancer Spread
May 13, 2013
…throughout the body – to promote the spread of disease, a process called metastasis.
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Researchers Find Link Between Inflammation, Tissue Regeneration and Wound Repair Response
February 25, 2015
Writing in the February 25 online issue of Nature, an international team of scientists, headed by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, report finding new links between inflammation and regeneration: signaling pathways that are activated by a receptor protein called gp130.
New Cellular Pathway Triggering Allergic Asthma Response Identified
January 19, 2015
…with the chronic lung condition and potentially other allergic diseases.
Teaching Computers to Recognize Sick Guts: Machine-Learning and the Microbiome
January 12, 2017
A new proof-of-concept study by UC San Diego researchers succeeded in training computers to “learn” what a healthy versus an unhealthy gut microbiome looks like based on its genetic makeup.
UC San Diego to Participate in White House’s National Microbiome Initiative
May 13, 2016
On May 13, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced a new National Microbiome Initiative, a coordinated effort to better understand microbiomes and to develop tools to protect and restore healthy microbiome function. OSTP is launching the initiative with a combined federal agency investment of more…
Blocking Known Cancer Driver Unexpectedly Reveals a New Tumor-Promoting Pathway
May 17, 2016
While investigating a potential therapeutic target for the ERK1 and 2 pathway, a widely expressed signaling molecule known to drive cancer growth in one third of patients with colorectal cancer, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers found that an alternative pathway immediately emerges when ERK1/2 is halted,…
The Rising Price of Medicare Part D’s 10 Most Costly Medications
July 5, 2018
Researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California San Diego have found that the cost for the 10 “highest spend” medications in Medicare Part D — the U.S. federal government’s primary prescription drug benefit for older citizens — rose almost one-third between 2011 and 2015,…
Blocking Tumor-Induced Inflammation Impacts Cancer Development
October 3, 2012
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report the discovery of microbial–dependent mechanisms through which some cancers mount an inflammatory response that fuels their development and growth.
‘You Are What You Eat,’ and Now Researchers Know Exactly What You’re Eating
July 7, 2022
UC San Diego researchers describe a new method to identify all of the unidentified molecules derived from food, providing a direct way to link molecules in diet to health outcomes.
Pioneering Scientist and Innovator Larry Smarr Retires
June 11, 2020
Larry Smarr will step down as the director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and retire as a distinguished professor from the Jacobs School of Engineering Computer Science and Engineering Department at the end of this month.
