Rethinking Remdesivir
August 2, 2021
UC San Diego researchers modify remdesivir, creating oral version that can be taken earlier in COVID-19 diagnoses. In cell and animal studies, revised drug proved effective and safe.
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UC San Diego-Human Longevity Inc. Agreement Seeks to Accelerate Medical Science
March 4, 2014
The new collaborative research agreement between Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) and the University of California, San Diego, announced today, represents a significant and necessary step in efforts to research and translate the potential of the human genome into novel and real treatments and therapies able to change and improve the…
Sweet! How Glycogen is Linked to Heat Generation in Fat Cells
October 27, 2021
University of California San Diego researchers, with international colleagues, describe how energy expenditure and heat production are regulated in obesity through a previously unknown cellular pathway.
New 3D Technology Can Repair Aneurysms Previously Deemed Inoperable
September 16, 2019
New technology from Cydar is allowing UC San Diego Health surgeons to repair aneurysms previously deemed inoperable.
An Errant Editing Enzyme Promotes Tumor Suppressor Loss and Leukemia Propagation
January 3, 2019
UC San Diego researchers have found a stem cell enzyme copy edits more than 20 tumor types, providing new therapeutic target for preventing cancer cell resistance to chemotherapy and radiation.
Pancreatic Cancer Risk Linked to Weak Sunlight
April 29, 2015
Writing in the April 30 online issue of the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine report pancreatic cancer rates are highest in countries with the least amount of sunlight. Low sunlight levels were due to a combination of heavy…
Transforming Transplantation
February 7, 2023
UC San Diego Health’s Center for Transplantation is among the nation’s best in lung, heart, kidney and liver programs, powered by long experience and deep expertise.
Biology of Time Change
March 7, 2013
…the clocks in the liver and some other body organs are sensitive to the time of food intake. The [Satchin] Panda lab (in UC San Diego’s Division of Biological Sciences and the Salk Institute) has shown dramatically that mice will become obese when they eat around the clock but not…
Parasite Lost
November 27, 2013
Using advanced methodologies that pit drug compounds against specific types of malaria parasite cells, an international team of scientists, including researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, have identified a potential new weapon and approach for attacking…
NCI Renews Funding for San Diego Universities, Community Health Centers to Work Together
September 28, 2015
A collaborative program aimed at reducing the burden of cancer among Hispanic/Latinos in San Diego and Imperial counties through research and community outreach has received a $13 million grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health. The five-year grant renews funding for a partnership…
