November 30, 2020
UC San Diego researchers discovered that the makeup of a person’s gut microbiome is linked to their levels of active vitamin D, and revealed a new understanding of vitamin D and how it’s typically measured.
September 10, 2019
UC San Diego researchers say that measuring how quickly a person’s pupil dilates while they are taking cognitive tests may be a low-cost, low-invasive method to aid in screening individuals at increased genetic risk for AD before cognitive decline begins.
September 23, 2011
Carmen Reinhart, the Dennis Weatherstone Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, will speak on “After the Fall” at 7:30 am Thursday, October 20 at the University of California San Diego Faculty Club. The $50.00 per person cost to attend the Economics Roundtable includes continental breakfast and parking.
September 9, 2021
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers will receive $6.4 million in National Institutes of Health grant funding to study how external signals and genetic variations influence the behavior of one cell type in particular: insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas.
April 29, 2022
Researchers developed a smartphone app that could allow people to screen for Alzheimer’s and other neurological diseases and disorders—by recording closeups of their eye. The app uses a smartphone’s built-in cameras to measure changes in pupil size, which could be used to assess cognitive condition.
March 19, 2019
A team of scientists spent six months co-designing robots with informal caregivers for people with dementia, such as family members. They found that caregivers wanted the robots to support positive moments shared by caregivers and their loved ones; and lessen caregivers’ emotional burdens.
September 5, 2024
Brain scans reveal that mindfulness meditation engages different neural pathways compared to placebo, demonstrating that pain relief from mindfulness meditation is not the result of the placebo effect.
March 23, 2017
…can differ greatly from person to person. Determining the best amount (or dose) of a drug to give a person is especially tricky for children, where pharmacokinetics are rarely tested. “Initial pediatric dosing recommendations for drugs to treat HIV and other global diseases are often generated from small studies that…
April 3, 2013
Engineers who think like artists, physicists who thinks like dancers, scientists who think like poets, and designers who think like Mother Nature: These are some of the researchers from the University of California, San Diego on display at a public event on Friday, April 12 that will extol and explore…
December 4, 2014
…meaningful dialogues, support the personal and professional development of students, and create spaces of education around diversity for the entire campus. Jim Lin, UC San Diego math professor emeritus, was one of the original taskforce leaders. “How to create meaningful dialogues across cultures remains today a thorny problem that has…
