May 22, 2014
…host immune response in genetically susceptible children. Air sampling in Japan during the winter KD season found unexpectedly high levels of Candida species within the rich microbiome of tropospheric winds. Burns, who has published extensively on KD, said these combined factors point to a pathogenic airborne toxin or molecule associated…
October 29, 2015
…and responsibility? Should we genetically engineer mosquitos to prevent malaria? If you could describe the life of a professor in one word, what word would you choose and why? “Fortunate.” Just last week I was teaching relativity theory. I filled up the board with colored chalk spacetime diagrams and equations.…
April 21, 2016
…cells that can be genetically very different, she explained. So when hit with a single target-based therapy, tumor recovery will also be very different. Taylor’s research involves identifying the different ways that tumors can recover from one type of single target-based therapy, called anti-EGFR. This “central intel” on how gliomas…
June 14, 2018
…took advantage of a genetically engineered mouse model prone to atherosclerosis when on a high-fat diet, and exposed them to intermittently low oxygen and high carbon dioxide conditions to mimic sleep apnea. They then collected fecal samples twice per week for six weeks and processed them using 16S sequencing and…
June 4, 2020
…win at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition earned additional funding to keep developing Epinoma for the appropriate levels of sensitivity. “For me, being a part of this competition was just absolutely incredible,” he said. “It was so exciting to see our vision grow from an initial set of…
August 27, 2020
…actually a bunch of genetically identical animals that create a home structure through which they pump seawater to filter phytoplankton. At night, pyrosomes floating at the ocean’s surface sometimes flash blue with bioluminescence, hence their name (“pyrosome” is Greek for “fire-body”). Pyrosomes are somewhat mysterious because we still can’t predict…
September 17, 2020
…a protein linked to genetically inherited Parkinson’s disease. The researchers produced the first visualizations of leucine-rich repeat kinase 2, or LRRK2, as seen within its natural environment inside the cell, as well as the first high-resolution blueprint of the protein. Samara Reck-Peterson, lead principal investigator of the project. The Aligning…
August 4, 2022
…working to generate new, genetically-enabled marine cell biological model organisms useful for ongoing biomedical research. Hamdoun Lab graduate students Yoon Lee, Evan Tjeerdema, and Nathan Chang are also examining how different environmental stressors and harmful chemicals—such as persistent organic pollutants like flame retardants and legacy pesticides—interact during early life stages…
August 24, 2011
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which affects more than 1 million patients in North America, results from an uncontrolled immune response triggered by environmental factors, such as bacteria, in people genetically predisposed to the disorder. Ulcerative colitis, or inflammation of the lining of the colon, is one such condition.
October 10, 2011
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say that losing the ability to make a particular kind of sugar molecule boosted disease protection in early hominids, and may have directed the evolutionary emergence of our ancestors, the genus Homo.
