July 7, 2022
Scientists and physicians at UC San Diego and Scripps Research describe how wastewater sequencing provided dramatic new insights into levels and variants of SARS-CoV-2 on campus and in the broader community — a key step to public health interventions in advance of COVID-19 case surges.
May 26, 2017
In a small, randomized Phase I/II clinical trial (SAT1), researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine say a 100-year-old drug called suramin, originally developed to treat African sleeping sickness, was safely administered to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who subsequently displayed measurable, but transient, improvement in…
February 17, 2022
…happens when the patient’s immune system generates antibodies against sugars called sialic acids in the serum. Varki wondered how that could possibly happen since every cell in the human body is already covered with sialic acid. “That’s when I got interested in what makes humans different, on a molecular level,”…
