October 25, 2012
…Inside the Bubble Researchers use superconducting magnets to discover shape of protein receptors critical to drug development From outside, there’s little indication of the cutting edge science that goes on within this odd structure, nicknamed “The Bubble.” Photo UCSD-TV At the edge of the Muir College parking lot sits a…
January 5, 2023
Researchers led by UC San Diego computer scientist Tajana Simunic-Rosing have entered in a $35 million contract from the Semiconductor Research Corporation to make computing orders of magnitude faster and more efficient. A group of 10 universities will band together to create the PRISM center.
April 5, 2023
The UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering has launched a program that provides funding to enable early-career faculty in engineering and computer science to build interdisciplinary research collaborations. The program is called the Jacobs School Early Career Faculty Development Award.
October 20, 2016
Although only 10 percent of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) cases are hereditary, a significant number of them are caused by mutations that affect proteins that bind RNA, a type of genetic material. University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers studied several ALS cases with a mutation in a…
March 27, 2023
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health examined a new treatment approach for endometrial cancer.
April 21, 2016
…festival which focuses on drug and alcohol safety as well as sexual assault prevention.” González added, “We know that a majority of students attending the festival act responsibly; however too many high-risk activities have occurred at past Sun God events. The future of this event has always been in the…
October 10, 2013
…to researchers and clinicians used to measuring vital signs like heart rate and blood pressure, not vital signs pertaining to consciousness. But Big Data is forcing Big Medicine to change in big ways, and smart, wireless devices, combined with powerful algorithms, are now able to measure and analyze data that…
November 14, 2019
…For first time, researchers use bacteriophages in mice to treat a condition not considered a classic bacterial infection: alcoholic liver disease. Bacteriophages are viruses that specifically destroy bacteria. In the early 20th century, researchers experimented with phages as a potential method for treating bacterial infections. But then antibiotics emerged and…
June 18, 2020
…things that will be useful either in the clinic or the streets; for example, if we're trying to reduce transmission for what we know now about aerosols and wearing masks. All these things will be part of it. Basic research has a huge role to play in the war against…
December 6, 2018
…Niederholtmeyer and Cynthia Chaggan, used materials like clay and plastic to make synthetic cells—or “cell-mimics”—capable of gene expression and communication rivaling that of living cells. According to some scientists, these research results, published recently in Nature Communications, could be among the most important in synthetic biology this year. Message of…
