January 16, 2020
…of today’s most devastating diseases,” he said. “Our work with San Diego Zoo Safari Park and data from samples will help us understand how different milk components evolve over time and between different mammals and why these compounds are in milk in the first place.” In 2016, Safari Park started…
January 14, 2022
Using CRISPR/Cas9 technology, scientists have genetically engineered a method to reverse insecticide resistance. The gene replacement method offers a new way to fight deadly malaria spread and reduce the use of pesticides that protect valuable food crops.
April 2, 2021
UC San Diego researchers found that the chemical inhibitor K777 reduces the coronavirus’ ability to infect cell lines by blocking human enzyme cathepsin L; clinical trials are underway.
December 6, 2023
A new study from researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UC San Francisco estimates 152,753 excess infant deaths were attributable to living in flood-prone areas in Bangladesh over the past 30 years.
January 25, 2018
…research in preventive medicine, infectious diseases and cardiovascular disease, particularly as they related to the relatively new field of genetics. Perhaps due to his own varied, interdisciplinary research interests, Stokes and the other founding faculty wanted to build a school that didn’t just have medical students memorize disease symptoms and…
October 1, 2019
Three University of California San Diego researchers have received prestigious awards through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, including the Pioneer Award, the program’s top honor.
May 26, 2016
…Nizet, a professor and infectious disease researcher in the UC San Diego School of Medicine. She decided to email him. Nizet was impressed and, as a wearer of contact lenses himself, curious. He responded within two minutes, to Janie’s great excitement. “I think I screamed and ran to tell my…
July 20, 2017
The Independent Citizens Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) today unanimously approved a $5.8 million award to University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers to develop a new immunotherapy in which patients’ cells would be equipped with a special receptor that recognizes and targets…
October 14, 2015
The most severe strep infections are often the work of one strain known as M1T1, named for the type of tentacle-like M protein projecting from the bacterium’s surface. Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences have uncovered a new…
June 4, 2012
An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, suggest that inactivation of two specific genes related to the immune system may have conferred selected ancestors of modern humans with improved protection from some pathogenic bacterial strains, such as Escherichia coli…
