February 9, 2024
Scientists hope to advance precision medicine through the discovery of a gene variant that leads to the same phenotype in separate high-dwelling populations while taking a different evolutionary path.
October 11, 2011
Men who took 400 international units (I.U.) of vitamin E daily had more prostate cancers compared to men who took a placebo, according to an updated review of data from the Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention (SELECT) Trial. The results of this update will appear October 12, 2011, in…
January 25, 2023
Working with mice, Salk Institute researchers, in collaboration with the University of California San Diego, have identified another factor contributing to diabetes-associated peripheral neuropathy: altered amino acid metabolism.
January 28, 2021
Researchers Expand Clinical Trials Investigating Convalescent Plasma Therapy for COVID-19 It’s hoped the long-used approach, which would use antibody-rich infusions, can either reduce disease symptoms or prevent infections after exposure to SARS-CoV-2 Parallel to COVID-19 vaccination efforts, physicians and researchers at UC San Diego Health, with collaborators across the country,…
December 17, 2020
…and Kate Hamelin with UC San Diego Health’s Child Life Program. Creating a Safe Space for Children with Burns to Heal Benjamin Herrera healing at home after suffering second-degree burns to his foot from an ATV accident. Two weeks before his ninth birthday, Benjamin Herrera went to visit family with…
February 11, 2021
…the University of California San Diego will showcase the expertise of its award-winning faculty and acclaimed researchers with a virtual event series entitled “Evenings of Nonconventional Wisdom.” Beginning this month, UC San Diego will present five free, online events where attendees can learn about and be inspired by the latest…
January 29, 2015
A team that includes scores of researchers from across the country representing dozens of universities and medical institutions has produced the most comprehensive integrative analysis yet of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs), a particularly malignant and deadly type of tumor that accounts for roughly 3 percent of all…
December 10, 2020
…Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health. “Truly, I am running out of options, as far as treatment goes,” said Thurman, whose cancer developed in his tonsils and has since spread to his lungs. “The latest immunotherapies, both the FDA-approved and the experimental, were proving ineffective. Obviously, it was…
May 18, 2018
…at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and their collaborators have developed a technique that allows them to speed up or slow down human heart cells growing in a dish on command — simply by shining a light on them and varying its intensity. The cells are grown…
May 10, 2024
New insights into the metabolism of autism from researchers at UC San Diego could help inform early detection and prevention strategies for the disorder.
