December 4, 2014
…causes typhoid fever in humans, but leaves other mammals unaffected. Researchers at University of California, San Diego and Yale University Schools of Medicine now offer one explanation — CMAH, an enzyme that humans lack. Without this enzyme, a toxin deployed by the bacteria is much better able to bind and…
October 13, 2023
In a large, multi-institutional effort led by University of California San Diego, researchers have analyzed more than a million human brain cells and revealed links between specific types of cells and various common neuropsychiatric disorders.
August 31, 2016
…have discovered an easy and efficient way to coax human pluripotent stem cells to regenerate bone tissue—by feeding them adenosine, a naturally occurring molecule in the body. The stem-cell-derived bone tissue helped repair cranial bone defects in mice without developing tumors or causing infection.
October 24, 2016
…Statutory Funding Program grants from the National Institutes of Health totaling more than $5 million.
February 21, 2024
Study shows greater muscle area in men leads increased risk of heart disease; it’s different for muscle density.
September 6, 2018
Writing in the current online issue of the journal Stem Cells and Development, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine describe development of a rapid, cost-effective method to create human cortical organoids directly from primary cells.
August 5, 2021
Local public health leaders, including Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science at UC San Diego, are calling on parents to protect children from preventable diseases, in particular the human papillomavirus (HPV) which is responsible for 36,000 new cancer diagnosis yearly.
March 17, 2016
…and 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.
December 15, 2017
…a discovery with potential human health impact based on a study of parchment tubeworm, the marine invertebrate Chaetopterus sp., that resides in muddy coastal seafloors. A new study published Dec. 12 in Biochemical Journal finds that the tubeworm, also known for its bioluminescence, has a ferritin with the fastest catalytic…
September 22, 2014
…their analysis and report results from its application to human embryonic cells in a paper published in Nature Methods online September 21.
