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Engineering the Microbiome to Potentially Cure Disease

August 4, 2022

UC San Diego researchers report using native bacteria in mice as the chassis for delivering transgenes capable of inducing persistent and potentially even curative therapeutic changes in the gut and reversing disease pathologies.

Researchers Find Key Player in Diabetic Kidney Disease Through Power of Metabolomics

July 29, 2015

Tapping the potential of metabolomics, an emerging field focused on the chemical processes of metabolism, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a new and pivotal player in diabetic kidney disease.

HIV Infection Prematurely Ages People by an Average of Five Years

April 21, 2016

Thanks to combination antiretroviral therapies, many people with HIV can expect to live decades after being infected. Yet doctors have observed these patients often show signs of premature aging. Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the University of Nebraska Medical Center have applied a highly…

Illicit Fentanyl Use Linked to Increased Risk of Hepatitis C Among People Who Use Drugs

July 30, 2024

Researchers from University of California San Diego and el Colegio de la Frontera Norte in Mexico have revealed a link between illicit fentanyl use and the transmission of hepatitis C (HCV) among people who inject drugs in San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico.

Bioengineers Receive $12M Grant from NIH to Further Research on Building Blocks of Human Metabolism

August 20, 2018

The University of California San Diego has received a $12 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to expand the Metabolomics Workbench, a searchable, interactive repository of data for all research in the field of metabolomics—the study of the small molecules called metabolites that are found within cells…

Newly Identified Target May Help with Drug Discovery for Chronic Inflammatory Diseases

July 25, 2018

In a study published online July 25 in the journal Nature, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers identified a signaling pathway that activates the NLRP3 inflammasome implicated in several severe chronic inflammatory disorders.

2 UC San Diego Scientists Receive Prestigious New Innovator Awards from NIH

September 20, 2011

Two scientists at the University of California, San Diego have been awarded New Innovator Awards from the National Institutes of Health for research projects “that challenge the status quo with innovative ideas that have the potential to propel fields forward and speed the translation of research into improved health for…

UC San Diego Researchers Honored as Prebys Research Heroes

May 2, 2024

Stephanie Fraley, Marygorret Obonyo and Daniela Valdez-Jasso have been named Prebys Research Heroes. Grants totaling $1.5 million from the Prebys Foundation will support their research focused on advancing health care and medical discoveries.

“Molecular Rosetta Stone” Reveals How our Microbiome Talks to Us

March 11, 2024

Researchers from Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science at the University of California San Diego have uncovered thousands of previously unknown bile acids, a type of molecule used by our gut microbiome to communicate with the rest of the body.

Alternative Proteins Encoded by Same Gene Have Widely Divergent Functions

February 11, 2016

A single human gene can produce many different proteins. In the first large-scale study of its kind, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and McGill University report that most of these sibling proteins encoded by the same gene — known as protein isoforms…

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