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Plant Virus Treatment Shows Promise in Fighting Metastatic Cancers in Mice

May 13, 2024

An experimental treatment made from a plant virus is effective at protecting against a broad range of metastatic cancers in mice, shows a new study from the University of California San Diego. The treatment, composed of nanoparticles fashioned from the cowpea mosaic virus—a virus that infects black-eyed pea plants—showed remarkable…

Protein Clumps in ALS Neurons Provide Potential Target for New Therapies

July 1, 2019

UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers identified chemical compounds that prevent stress-induced clumping of TDP-43 protein in ALS motor neurons grown in the lab — a starting point for new ALS therapeutics.

New Computational Strategy Finds Brain Tumor-Shrinking Molecules

October 30, 2015

Patients with glioblastoma, a type of malignant brain tumor, usually survive fewer than 15 months following diagnosis. Since there are no effective treatments for the deadly disease, University of California, San Diego researchers developed a new computational strategy to search for molecules that could be developed into glioblastoma drugs. In…

UC Riverside Joins UC San Diego, UC Irvine in Multidisciplinary Research Institute Calit2

January 18, 2022

The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, or Calit2, is expanding to include a third University of California campus. UC Riverside will join founding members UC San Diego and UC Irvine in the multidisciplinary research institute.

Transplanting Good Bacteria to Kill Staph

February 22, 2017

…properties and at what rate these are found on healthy and non-healthy skin. In a paper published in Science Translation Medicine, the team reports isolating and growing good bacteria that produce antimicrobial peptides and successfully transplanting it to treat patients with the most common type of eczema, known as atopic…

Smartphone Attachment Could Increase Racial Fairness in Neurological Screening

October 24, 2023

This smartphone attachment could enable people to screen for a variety of neurological conditions, such as Alzheimer’s disease and traumatic brain injury, at low cost—and do so accurately regardless of their skin tone.

Three Deans, One Alum Take a Look at Women’s Leadership in Higher Education

May 7, 2015

…sense of fairness and equity.” From left to right: Carol Padden, dean of Social Sciences, Margaret Leinen, director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Cristina Della Coletta, dean of the Division of Arts. On making tough choices Leinen, citing advice given to her long ago: “Decisions are based on facts.…

New Findings May Fix the Replicability Crisis in Microbiome Research

July 1, 2024

UC San Diego researchers have discovered another factor that affects the composition of the gut microbiome: time of day.

UC San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities Hosts Lectures on Health and Well-being

December 10, 2015

The University of California, San Diego Division of Arts and Humanities hosts, “Degrees of Health and Well-being,” a public lecture series that runs from January 20 through February 24, 7:00 p.m., in the Great Hall, where six keynote speakers will present talks to campus and wider San Diego audiences.

Genetically Informed Atlases Reveal New Landscapes in Brain Structure

February 7, 2022

An international team of scientists, led by UC San Diego researchers, has used atlases of the human brain informed by genetics to identify hundreds of genomic loci. The findings illuminate how genes impact the brain and diseases.

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