September 5, 2013
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego report a breakthrough in technology that could pave the way for digital systems to record, store, edit and replay information in a dimension that goes beyond what we can see or hear: touch.
February 11, 2021
Researchers have produced a groundbreaking new reference genome for the Asian malaria vector mosquito Anopheles stephensi. The achievement will help scientists engineer advanced forms of defense against malaria transmission, including targeted CRISPR and gene drive-based strategies.
October 11, 2011
…The exhibit consists of reproductions of selected photographs from the collections of the San Diego Museum of Man taken in San Diego’s Native American communities around the turn of the 20th century. Designed to make connections between the people in the photographs and present generations, the exhibit recognized and honored…
January 4, 2018
In the past 50 years, the amount of water in the open ocean with zero oxygen has gone up more than fourfold. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased more than 10-fold since 1950. Scientists expect oxygen to continue dropping even outside these zones as…
July 3, 2023
UC San Diego undergraduate students are learning to apply extended reality tools to interdisciplinary projects at the Qualcomm Institute.
May 16, 2019
…editing via CRISPR, assisted reproduction, synthetic biology and genomics, and gene drives have many applications: cloning, genetic rescue, de-extinction, invasive pest elimination, assisted adaptation and engineered disease resistance, among others. Sandler’s talk led to much discussion from the community, as he provided the grounds for identifying a full range of…
February 4, 2021
…is called the effective reproduction number, or how many infections are caused by an infected individual today. Right now, the reproduction number is below one, meaning that every infection leads to less than one new infection, and we see a declining number of cases. Unfortunately, because this B1.1.7 strain is…
October 25, 2017
Understanding the control of cell growth has challenged biomedical researchers for decades. Efforts to meet this challenge may have received an encouraging boost, however, from University of California San Diego physics professor Terence Hwa and colleagues. Their research, published in the Oct. 25 issue of Nature, led to the surprising…
May 11, 2017
By applying a novel computer algorithm to mimic how the brain learns, a team of researchers – with the aid of the Comet supercomputer based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego – has identified and replicated neural circuitry that resembles the way an unimpaired brain…
February 20, 2019
New research reveals that foreign honey bees often account for more than 90 percent of pollinators observed visiting flowers in San Diego, a global biodiversity hotspot. The monopoly may strongly affect species that are foundational to the stability of the region’s plant-pollinator interactions.
