March 14, 2019
…UC San Diego, Prestholdt specializes in African, Indian Ocean and global history with an emphasis on consumer culture and politics. But why did people around the world come to see these figures as so important? And how have their meanings changed? These questions lie at the heart of the new…
October 10, 2019
…was in pain, and, eventually, he had to make a tough decision: try to make it through the season at less-than-peak condition or take the season off and come back for a fifth year. Oshita had long discussions with his coach, athletic trainers and UC San Diego Health orthopedic surgeon…
February 13, 2020
…rockfish and king crab. Eventually, these mini-microplastics could be making their way into humans. “No one eats salps, but it’s not far away on the food chain from the things you do eat,” Brandon said. The BEST path forward Tethered by rope and submerged underwater off the Scripps pier, plastic…
July 23, 2020
…it, engineers and fabrication specialists at the Qualcomm Institute’s Prototyping Lab leapt into action. Vacuum exhaused isolation lockers, or VEILs, produced in the Prototyping Lab are ready to be delivered to local hospitals. The lab’s 3D printers, laser cutters and other machinery along with in-house expertise in mechanical and electrical…
February 17, 2022
…apes during a CARTA specialization track field course trip to East Africa (2017). CARTA Maps Humanity’s Distinctive Evolution For more than 20 years, the Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny has sought answers to big questions about where we came from, and what makes us uniquely human In…
August 4, 2022
…last for decades before eventually developing into cancer. HPV causes approximately 36,000 new cases of cancer in men and women every year. “HPV is a silent infection as there are typically few symptoms when people are first exposed to the virus, but we are seeing that it can lead to…
January 9, 2012
A team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Zacharon Pharmaceuticals, have developed a simple, reliable test for identifying biomarkers for mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS), a group of inherited metabolic disorders that are currently diagnosed in patients only after symptoms have become serious…
June 17, 2013
Gordon, the newest high-performance supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of San Diego, California, has proven to be a boon to biologists interested in rapidly sifting through an ever-expanding amount of data.
February 3, 2014
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a protein critical to hematopoietic stem cell function and blood formation. The finding has potential as a new target for treating leukemia because cancer stem cells rely upon the same protein to regulate and sustain their growth.
September 2, 2014
September 1 was the start date of an important new project for two faculty experts in databases and machine learning at the University of California, San Diego. Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) professor Yannis Papakonstantinou in the Jacobs School of Engineering is principal investigator on a $1.1 million new project…
