December 10, 2020
…at UC San Diego Health. “Truly, I am running out of options, as far as treatment goes,” said Thurman, whose cancer developed in his tonsils and has since spread to his lungs. “The latest immunotherapies, both the FDA-approved and the experimental, were proving ineffective. Obviously, it was time to go…
December 3, 2018
The first in-depth look at the genome of a jellyfish reveals the origins of a successful survival strategy. Results indicate early jellyfish recycled existing genes to morph from polyp to medusa and suggest animals can radiate into new niches and forms fairly easily.
January 18, 2012
…career as a clinical health psychologist. She has spent the last 25 years conducting research on physical activity behavior, and her primary research interests are in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and cancer, and the promotion of women's health. Now she serves as Chair of UC San Diego's Department of…
November 30, 2017
…Tseng uses Learning Glass technology at EdTech to draw a chart as supplemental material for UC San Diego’s circadian rhythm undergraduate course. Photo Courtesy BioClock Studio. The course material created from the BioClock Studio each winter quarter is integrated into the syllabus for a specialized circadian rhythms undergraduate course offered…
November 16, 2017
…new era in navigation technology. One other pivotal event happened that year—the University of California San Diego was officially established on Nov. 18 as the seventh campus in the UC system. “We have become the distinctive experimental campus envisioned by our founders,” said Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla. “Today, fueled by…
March 16, 2023
UC San Diego researchers use a DNA designer drug to restore key protein levels in motor neurons, delaying paralysis in a mouse model of ALS.
January 21, 2021
…the National Institutes of Health, is aimed at providing simple, affordable and reliable surveillance for COVID-19 infections that can be done daily and easily implemented in resource-poor settings. It is part of the NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Radical (RADx-rad) program for COVID-19. “In many ways, masks are the perfect…
May 4, 2012
Can a computer be taught to automatically label every song on the Internet using sets of examples provided by unpaid music fans? University of California, San Diego engineers have found that the answer is yes, and the results are as accurate as using paid music experts to provide the examples,…
April 27, 2017
…director of the Global Health Institute in the UC San Diego School of Medicine. “I think the event was important to teach the future generation that we cannot take evidence-based decision making and federal funding for STEM for granted. And that we need to stand together and fight to protect…
October 10, 2011
The exterior shiny metal louvers and heat-reflecting glass, combined with interior spaces sprinkled with modern art and low-wattage lights gives the newly opened UC San Diego Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center the lean and healthy crispness of a salad with non-fat dressing.
