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Using Artificial Intelligence for Healthy Living

October 5, 2017

…Using Artificial Intelligence for Healthy Living IBM and UC San Diego announce partnership at Sept. 28 signing ceremony “UC San Diego is a community of changemakers and innovators,” said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla Sept. 28 as he welcomed a crowd in Atkinson Hall at the IBM-UC San…

New Computer Program ‘Learns’ to Identify Mosaic Mutations That Cause Disease

January 2, 2023

UC San Diego researchers describe a method for teaching a computer how to spot complex “mosaic mutations” using an artificial intelligence approach termed “deep learning.”

Of Mice, Not Men

November 19, 2014

…mouse genes do not in fact behave like their human counterparts, suggesting science will need to rethink at least some roles of the lab mouse as a model organism.

Artificial Muscles, Robotic Grippers, Health Care Robotics

May 14, 2018

From a gripper equipped with gecko-inspired adhesives, to artificial muscles and robotic joints, to talks on human-robot interaction and health care robotics, the University of California San Diego will have a strong presence at the 2018 International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 21 to 25 in Brisbane, Australia.

UC San Diego Health Treats 1st Cancer Patient with Stem-Cell Derived Natural Killer Cells

April 1, 2019

Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health treats the first patient treated for cancer with a human-induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC)-derived cell therapy called FT500. Dan Kaufman collaborated with Fate Therapeutics to bring the iPSC-derived natural killer cell cancer immunotherapy to patients.

A Better Way to Track Emerging Cell Therapies Using MRIs

September 19, 2014

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and elsewhere describe the first human tests of using a perfluorocarbon (PFC) tracer in combination with non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to track therapeutic immune cells injected into patients with colorectal cancer.

Binding Sites for LIN28 Protein Found in Thousands of Human Genes

September 4, 2012

…how scientists view this protein and its impact on human disease.

Online Civic Design Challenge to Help San Diego Address COVID-19

April 3, 2020

Human-centered design can help San Diego address the COVID-19 pandemic and put our city on course to be more sustainable, too. That’s the basic premise of the 2020 edition of the city-wide design challenge from UC San Diego’s Design Lab called “Design for San Diego,” or D4SD for short.

Scientists Discover Neurochemical Imbalance in Schizophrenia

September 11, 2014

Using human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs), researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at University of California, San Diego have discovered that neurons from patients with schizophrenia secrete higher amounts of three neurotransmitters broadly implicated in a range of psychiatric disorders.

AI Chatbot ChatGPT Mirrors Its Users to Appear Intelligent

March 17, 2023

In a new paper relevant to artificial intelligence and ChatGPT, Professor Terrence Sejnowski explores the relationship between the human interviewer and language models to uncover why chatbots respond in particular ways, why those responses vary and how to improve them in the future.

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