August 31, 2021
UC San Diego researchers developed first-of-their-kind lung organoids that include all cell types that make up the organ, allowing for “Phase 0” testing of new treatments for respiratory infections such as COVID-19.
January 11, 2018
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues across the country and around the world, have used whole genome analyses and chemogenetics to identify new drug targets and resistance genes in 262 parasite cell lines of Plasmodium falciparum — protozoan pathogens that cause malaria — that…
October 29, 2024
UC San Diego will honor five individuals as recipients of the 2024 Revelle Medal, a prestigious award recognizing sustained, distinguished and extraordinary service to campus. The 2024 Revelle Medal recipients are: Fan Chung Graham, Stephan Haggard, Douglas Richman, M.D., Robert Schooley, M.D. and Jan B. Talbot.
June 19, 2024
Using the first major innovation for cohort studies in decades, a new paper from UC San Diego leverages social media to understand vaping behavior and opens up an entirely new way to conduct population health research.
April 12, 2023
Scientists have traced the origin of a unique protein key to vertebrate’s camera-like vision back 500 million years. Their analysis of more than 900 genomes across the tree of life revealed that the protein came through horizontal gene transfer from foreign bacterial genes.
May 22, 2014
Possible Source of Kawasaki Disease Found Deadly childhood condition may be triggered by aerosols from northeast China Actress Sarah Chalke Becomes Advocate for Kawasaki Disease Research and Treatment in Wake of Son’s Illness It was clear to Actress Sarah Chalke in late 2011 that her 15-month-old son was sick. But…
July 2, 2014
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that the risk of patient harm increased two-fold in 2006 – the peak year that teaching hospitals nationwide embraced the pursuit of minimally invasive robotic surgery for prostate cancer. Results of the study are published in the…
January 21, 2021
…important for understanding heart disease, developing new drugs and paving the way toward developing cell replacement therapies in future space missions. During her first mission to the Space Station in 2016, Rubins relied on scientific training that includes an undergraduate degree in molecular biology from UC San Diego to become…
October 22, 2012
“A Mercedes Benz isn’t designed to function in the Sahara Desert,” notes Dr. Eliah Aronoff-Spencer of the University of California, San Diego. “So why are we designing medical equipment for developing countries the same way we do for developed ones?”
February 18, 2015
While genomics is the study of all of the genes in a cell or organism, epigenomics is the study of all the genomic add-ons and changes that influence gene expression but aren’t encoded in the DNA sequence. A variety of new epigenomic information is now available in a collection of…
