November 30, 2015
Many human gene variants have evolved specifically to protect older adults against neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases, thus preserving their contributions to society, report University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers in the November 30 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
February 15, 2024
Gyamfi-Bannerman is the first UC San Diego faculty member to serve as president of the leading medical society working toward equitable pregnancy outcomes.
June 23, 2014
UC San Diego Health System’s doctors are the first fertility specialists in the county to use a new ultrasound technique to assess fallopian tubes by employing a mixture of saline and air bubbles that is less painful, avoids x-ray exposure and is more convenient to patients during an already vulnerable…
May 28, 2015
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, in collaboration with the UC San Diego School of Medicine, has launched a new mentoring program designed to provide a pathway for high school student researchers to gain access to experts in their field of interest.
February 25, 2015
Writing in the February 25 online issue of the journal PLOS ONE, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, with collaborators from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), have definitively shown for the first time that the culture conditions in which stem cells are grown and mass-produced can…
January 30, 2014
Eight stem cell scientists at the University of California, San Diego have been awarded a total of $8.165 million to fund research tackling significant, unresolved issues in human stem cell biology.
September 17, 2019
Two surgical procedures used to repair vaginal prolapse — hysterectomy and employing mesh support that preserves the uterus — have comparable clinical outcomes after three years, according to new data from researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine.
February 28, 2012
…to oceans and human health from seafood contamination. The work, led by Scripps marine biologists Amro Hamdoun and Stuart Sandin, also will raise public awareness of the ocean’s pollution problems and inspire solutions. “We have put many thousands of new industrial chemicals into the oceans over the past 50 years,”…
November 30, 2017
…our cardiovascular, endocrine and reproductive health. Because biological clock genes have been “conserved,” or retained, in our DNA during millions of years of evolution, understanding how organisms such as cyanobacteria or fruit flies regulate their internal biological clocks has provided circadian biologists with a greater understanding of the precise genetic…
February 18, 2015
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine used algae as a mini-factory to produce a malaria parasite protein. The algae-produced protein, paired with an immune-boosting cocktail suitable for use in humans, generated antibodies in mice that nearly eliminated mosquito infection by the malaria parasite. The method is…
