UC San Diego Health is Home to San Diego’s Top Docs
October 1, 2024
UC San Diego Health physicians are named “Top Docs” in annual survey.
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Familiar Faces Look Happier Than Unfamiliar Ones
June 20, 2017
…us than unfamiliar ones, even when faces are objectively expressing the same emotion to the same degree.
SalpPOOP Study Highlights Biogeochemical Importance of Zooplankton Fecal Pellets
February 2, 2023
New research links fivefold increases in carbon absorption to salp prevalence in the uppermost reaches of the ocean. It is thus a key natural process that mitigates the effects of fossil fuel use and other activities contributing to climate change.
CAR-T Immunotherapies May Have a New Player
June 29, 2018
Emerging CAR-T immunotherapies leverage modified versions of patient’s T-cells to target and kill cancer cells. In a new study, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and University of Minnesota report that similarly modified natural killer (NK) cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) also…
Tri-City to Partner with UC San Diego Health in Delivering World-Class Medical Care
October 27, 2023
UC San Diego Health has been selected as Tri-City Healthcare District’s future health care partner.
Borderzone Breakthrough: A New Source of Cardiac Inflammation
August 28, 2024
…King, associate professor of bioengineering and medicine, and a cardiologist at the Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center, report the discovery of a novel mechanism of cardiac inflammation that may expand therapeutic opportunities to prevent heart attacks from becoming heart failure.
UC San Diego Health Physicians Named ‘Top Docs’ in San Diego County
October 10, 2022
More than 100 UC San Diego Health physicians have been named “Top Docs” in the 2022 San Diego Magazine “Physicians of Exceptional Excellence” survey.
Family Legacy
August 16, 2022
In the mid-1960s, Jorge Carrillo discovered a way out of the life of migrant farm work through a UC San Diego college readiness program. Later, he, his wife and two children graduated from Marshall College and have gone on to establish a scholarship endowment to help students in financial need.
High Vinculin Levels Help Keep Aging Fruit Fly Hearts Young
July 17, 2018
…the crucial relationship between cardiac function, metabolism, and longevity. Researchers from the University of California San Diego discovered that maintaining high levels of the protein vinculin—which sticks heart muscle cells to one another—confers health benefits to fruit flies. Their work shows that fruit flies bred to produce 50 percent more…
Understudied Mutations Have Big Impact on Gene Expression
April 8, 2021
An international team of researchers led by computer scientists at the University of California San Diego have identified 163 variable number tandem repeats that actively regulate gene expression. In a Nature Communications paper, the researchers provide new insights into this understudied mechanism
