August 22, 2017
…cPASS including funding for postdoctoral fellows and researchers, as well as for public outreach. The center will be supported in its team-based, multi-disciplinary, multi-method analysis efforts on policy relevant topics. A focus will be on the viability of a U.S. grand strategy of restraint and the use of deterrence to…
April 19, 2018
…partly to network for postdoctoral positions after I finish my dissertation,” he said, “and I’ve always had this dream of renting a cabin in the middle of nowhere and finishing my dissertation away from the world.” UC San Diego faculty, students and staff can root for Root on May 3…
January 23, 2019
Using active genetics technology, biologists have developed the world’s first CRISPR/Cas9-based approach to control genetic inheritance in a mammal. The achievement in mice lays the groundwork for further advances based on this technology, including biomedical research on human disease.
April 27, 2017
…matters.” School of Medicine postdoctoral researcher Keolu Fox also spoke at the expo. While his research focuses on genome sequencing and editing, Fox also co-founded IndiGenomics, a tribal non-profit organization with a mission of bringing genomic expertise to indigenous communities. His goal was to bring discussions of diversity to the…
October 3, 2019
UC San Diego researchers investigated how a type of immune cell called a macrophage becomes specialized to the liver. Their study, published October 3, 2019 in Immunity, sets the stage for understanding how macrophage specialization gets disrupted by — or contributes to — liver disease.
September 10, 2024
UC San Diego and its partners officially opened the Goeddel Family Technology Sandbox, a hub that brings together cutting-edge instruments for science and education. The facility is one of the world’s most pioneering centers for technology across the biological, physical and health sciences.
April 30, 2019
A team of scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) has developed a new way to produce kainic acid, a natural seaweed neurochemical and powerful reagent used in brain research.
July 7, 2014
Let’s say you’re a bee and you’ve spotted a new and particularly lucrative source of nectar and pollen. What’s the best way to communicate the location of this prize cache of food to the rest of your nestmates without revealing it to competitors, or “eavesdropping” spies, outside of the colony?
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.
August 19, 2021
New visualizations of SARS-CoV-2 have allowed researchers to discover how the virus enters and infects healthy human cells. They found that glycan sugar molecules act as infection “gates” to our cell’s receptors.
