November 29, 2012
Ten professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation’s largest scientific organization. They are among 702 members selected this year by colleagues in their disciplines to be honored by the association for “scientifically or socially…
May 2, 2023
A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego, has developed a stretchable ultrasonic array that facilitates serial, non-invasive, three-dimensional imaging of tissues as deep as four centimeters below the surface of human skin, at a spatial resolution of 0.5 millimeters.
May 7, 2020
…Nurses undergo training in disease process, symptom management and even psychology, but there is a lot of on-the-job training that cannot be explained in text books. Like learning to follow a gut feeling when something seems wrong, she said. That requires real-world experience. Lichtwardt arrives for her shifts at 7…
April 11, 2024
Researchers from UC San Diego have discovered the biochemical workings of an old-fashioned diabetes drug, and it’s helping them develop new, safer alternatives.
February 7, 2023
A novel drug combination for leukemia, pioneered at UC San Diego Health, provides patients with a better treatment option that results in less side effects and can put patients in remission.
January 23, 2020
…20-year-old born with rare disease arrives at crossroads: continue toward future most likely leading to early death or become first patient to undergo new gene-and-stem cell therapy developed by School of Medicine researchers Stephanie Cherqui, (right) developed a unique stem cell-based therapy for cystinosis over years of research at UC…
December 4, 2023
UC San Diego has the highest number of influential voices in the University of California system and ranks 7th highest among universities worldwide, according to Clarivate’s 2023 Highly Cited Researchers list.
September 29, 2022
An international team of scientists, co-led by researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, has created the first pan-cancer mycobiome atlas—a survey of 35 types of cancer and their associated fungi.
July 20, 2016
…approach enables continual production and release of drugs at disease sites in mice while simultaneously limiting the size, over time, of the populations of bacteria engineered to produce the drugs.
May 7, 2024
An international team of scientists has discovered a new cellular mechanism that explains how cells can adapt to pressure changes during tissue growth by packing themselves into a unique shape. Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station, and the Institute of Biomedicine in…
