March 18, 2021
…“family,” “work,” “attempt,” and “alcohol,” to discover hidden topics or themes in large sets of death investigation narratives. From there, researchers look over the topics to see if they also make sense from a clinical standpoint and then develop hypotheses based on the data. “We use NLP and a thorough…
April 8, 2020
UC San Diego and Space Tango received a NASA award to develop the first dedicated stem cell research laboratory within the International Space Station.
December 13, 2022
UC San Diego scientists identify a new molecular model and potential therapeutic target for gout, the most common form of inflammatory arthritis.
September 3, 2020
…as higher utilization of alcohol and other substances, or fall prey to addictions like food, online gambling or shopping. Even those who have been solid as a rock might have begun to feel anxiety and depression during the pandemic. Sometimes the depression is a manifestation of the compounded despair and…
November 17, 2022
UC San Diego researchers expand and deepen understanding of how genetic aberrations fuel human papilloma virus-negative head and neck cancers and, potentially, provide paths to further refinement and improvement of immune checkpoint inhibitors for HPV-negative head and neck cancers.
June 7, 2016
Students and researchers at all stages of their academic careers went head-to-head recently, competing for $100k in prizes at the 10th annual UC San Diego Entrepreneur Challenge.
December 5, 2013
…“temptation goods” such as alcohol and tobacco. But perhaps most interesting and significant is that mental health improved substantially. According to validated psychological scales, there were large reductions in stress and depression, along with increases in life satisfaction. There is even some evidence, as measured by saliva samples, that larger…
November 28, 2023
A startup spun off from technology developed at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering has secured $4 million in venture capital seed funding to commercialize their sweat-based diagnostic platform technology.
November 10, 2022
Eight researchers from UC San Diego are listed in the first-ever ranking of the “1,000 Best Female Scientists in the World” by research.com, an analytics platform that advocates for improved research quality and also ranks universities, scholarly journals and academic conferences.
April 8, 2021
…suspended silently in their alcohol seas, a mausoleum of 140,000 jars representing more than 6,000 different marine fish species. But they’re not entombed here; these specimens are all available to the scientific community, both near and far, and have many tales to tell even in their lifeless state. One big…
