As Life Slips by: Why Eye Movement Doesn’t Blur the Picture
May 7, 2015
…two proteins, Contactin-4 and amyloid precursor protein, binding during embryonic development.
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New Drug for Blood Cancers Now in Five Phase II Clinical Trials
July 27, 2015
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have established the safety and dosing of a new drug for treating blood cancers. The findings are published online July 27 in The Lancet Haematology.
Study Provides Hope for Some Human Stem Cell Therapies
August 20, 2015
An international team of scientists headed by biologists at UC San Diego has discovered that an important class of stem cells known as human “induced pluripotent stem cells,” or iPSCs, which are derived from an individual’s own cells, can be differentiated into various types of functional cells with different fates…
Three UC San Diego Researchers Elected to National Academy of Medicine
October 19, 2015
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced today the election of three new members from University of California, San Diego School of Medicine: Napoleone Ferrara, MD; Christopher K. Glass, MD, PhD; and Roberto Malinow, MD, PhD. Election to NAM is considered among the highest honors in the fields of health…
CIRM Grant to Fund Proposed Stem Cell Trials for ALS
March 17, 2016
…University of California, Davis to pursue a novel human embryonic stem cell-based therapy to rescue and restore neurons devastated by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS.
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,…
CIRM Grants May Fund the Next Great Stem Cell Achievement
May 20, 2016
All scientific achievement begins with an idea. Yesterday, three researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine were awarded funding by the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to pursue budding ideas that might eventually impact the field of human stem cell…
Gene Editing Technique Helps Find Cancer’s Weak Spots
March 20, 2017
Genetic mutations that cause cancer also weaken cancer cells, allowing researchers to develop drugs that will selectively kill them. This is called “synthetic lethality” because the drug is only lethal to mutated (synthetic) cells. Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Jacobs School of Engineering developed a method…
Novel Stem Cell-Derived Model Created of Inflammatory Neurological Disorder
August 10, 2017
An international team of scientists, led by University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers, has created a human stem cell-based model of a rare, but devastating, inherited neurological autoimmune condition called Aicardi-Goutieres Syndrome (AGS). In doing so, the team was able to identify unusual and surprising underlying genetic…
It’s Not a Rat’s Race for Human Stem Cells Grafted to Repair Spinal Cord Injuries
August 28, 2017
More than one-and-a-half years after implantation, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the San Diego Veterans Administration Medical Center report that human neural stem cells (NSCs) grafted into spinal cord injuries in laboratory rats displayed continued growth and maturity, with functional recovery beginning one year…
