DNA Treatment Could Delay Paralysis That Strikes Nearly All Patients with ALS
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.
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UC San Diego Launches Innovative Wellness App to Support Student Well-Being
September 26, 2024
A pioneering and comprehensive wellness app, Willo is the first of its kind on a university campus. Developed for UC San Diego students by UC San Diego students, it uses artificial intelligence (AI) to integrate the university’s extensive wellness services into a highly personalized, user-friendly platform that guides users toward…
First Jellyfish Genome Reveals Ancient Beginnings of Complex Body Plan
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.
Pre-med Student Melds Matrix and Medicine
March 18, 2021
…in computer science and technology when I was younger. With my first laptop, I swapped out the hard drive and it was fascinating to me how something so simple and seamless on the outside could be so complex on the inside; there’s this juxtaposition of chaos and order,” said Ye.…
UC San Diego Computer Scientist Among Young Faculty Recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships
February 21, 2013
An expert in bioinformatics and computational mass spectrometry at the University of California, San Diego is among the 2013 crop of young faculty members identified by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as “rising stars, the next generation of scientific leaders.”
QS World University Rankings Name UC San Diego Nation’s 6th Best Public University
May 22, 2020
The University of California San Diego has been named the nation’s sixth best public university by QS World University Rankings, which released their inaugural list of America’s top universities based on diversity, employability and internationalization on May 20. The first annual QS World Universit
UC San Diego’s Sulpizio Cardiovascular Center Combines Greenness with State-of-the-Art Treatment
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.
CARTA Maps Humanity’s Distinctive Evolution
February 17, 2022
…as bipedalism, stone tool technologies, diet, human development, molecular biology, evolutionary medicine and climate change. “In short, anthropogeny is concerned with what made us such a strange ape,” said Pascal Gagneux, Ph.D., CARTA associate director and professor of pathology and anthropology at UC San Diego. “It’s both fascinating and humbling…
“Game-powered machine learning” opens door to Google for music
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,…
UC San Diego Turning Back the Clock on Parkinson’s
April 16, 2015
…Parks, UC San Diego Health Sciences Like many young people, David Higgins was initially in denial about the possibility of having a serious, lifelong disease. “My friends would say, ‘You walk funny,” and I’d say, ‘I have a stiff back,’’ recalled Higgins, now 57. ”Parkinson’s was the last thing on…
