May 16, 2019
…Ibrahim, a biochemistry and cell biology major, found support in the campus’s Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services (OASIS) Summer Bridge Program. The initiative provides an intensive five-week residential program for incoming students—many of whom, like Ibrahim, are the first in their family to attend college. Summer Bridge is…
January 29, 2015
…the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences in La Jolla, and Richard Roblin, also at the Salk Institute and a post-doctoral fellow out of James Watson’s lab at Harvard University, published a foundational article in the field, a paper in the journal Science under the heading “Gene therapy for human genetic…
January 16, 2020
…Institute, a high school biology class at the Kearny School of College Connections used a touch screen to zoom in and out and examine the sample in detail. With 60,000 times the magnification and more than 500 times the resolution of the average classroom microscope, the high-powered machine offered students…
October 29, 2015
…Ninety percent of the cells that make up our bodies are actually bacteria, viruses, fungi and other microbes. And researchers are now finding that these unique microbial communities — called microbiomes — can greatly influence human and environmental health. The human gut microbiome alone has now been linked to allergies,…
October 26, 2021
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine tested the same treatment for kids with Kawasaki disease and rare COVID-19 reaction.
January 14, 2022
Using CRISPR/Cas9 technology, scientists have genetically engineered a method to reverse insecticide resistance. The gene replacement method offers a new way to fight deadly malaria spread and reduce the use of pesticides that protect valuable food crops.
June 8, 2015
The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine in La Jolla, California, and the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (Takeda) have agreed to establish a $10-million, five-year Innovation Alliance that would advance each organization’s research missions.
October 1, 2020
…large-scale social, technological and biological networks. This allows them to model contagion and predict the spread of emerging diseases. He was profiled in The New York Times in March of this year for his work on predicting the spread of the coronavirus. The model The model Ma, Vespignani and Yu…
January 8, 2015
A leading expert on microbiomes and bioinformatics, Rob Knight will be devoting some of his time to doing collaborative research in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department at the University of California, San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering. The department confirmed Knight’s joint appointment in CSE as a Faculty…
January 26, 2022
Six researchers and leaders at the University of California San Diego have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest general science organization in the world and publisher of the journal Science.
