May 5, 2014
May 5, 2014 —
With accelerating development of personalized cancer treatments matched to a patient’s DNA sequencing, proponents say frontline physicians increasingly need help to maneuver through the complex genomic landscape to find the most effective, individualized therapy.
April 6, 2017
April 6, 2017 —
In a new paper, a large team of researchers led by senior author Kelly Frazer, PhD, professor of pediatrics and director of the Institute for Genomic Medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, describe a new collection of 222 systematically derived and characterized iPSC lines generated as…
July 9, 2012
July 9, 2012 —
The biological mechanism of sunburn – the reddish, painful, protective immune response from ultraviolet (UV) radiation – is a consequence of RNA damage to skin cells, report researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and elsewhere in the July 8, 2012 Advance Online Publication of Nature…
September 7, 2023
September 7, 2023 —
Researchers turned to a descendant variety of Hass—the world’s most popular avocado—to explore the fruit’s evolutionary history through its genome.
October 24, 2016
October 24, 2016 —
There are many unanswered questions about the mechanisms that contribute to the onset of type 1 diabetes. Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine hope to answer some of them with two Type 1 Diabetes Special Statutory Funding Program grants from the National Institutes of Health totaling…
October 10, 2024
October 10, 2024 —
Funded by a California Institute for Regenerative Medicine grant, researchers in the UC San Diego Verge Center aim to uncover the genetic mechanisms behind neuropsychiatric disorders.
January 15, 2015
January 15, 2015 —
…week’s online issue of Molecular Autism, suggests that a genetic form of autism-like symptoms in mice are also corrected with the drug, even when treatment was started in young adult mice.
May 28, 2021
May 28, 2021 —
Scientists have developed a toolkit that helps pave the way to a gene drive designed to stop Culex mosquitoes from spreading disease. Culex mosquitoes spread devastating afflictions stemming from West Nile virus, Japanese encephalitis virus and the pathogen causing avian malaria.
October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014 —
…honoring Frederick Sanger, whose genetics research left a legacy written in A-T-G-C After a visit to UC San Diego in the early 1980s to give a lecture, the famed British biochemist Frederick Sanger was rewarded with a homemade T-shirt emblazoned with the letters DNA in sequins. It was the sort…
March 22, 2012
March 22, 2012 —
…for the first time, identified in young autism patients genetic mechanisms involved in abnormal early brain development and overgrowth that occurs in the disorder. The findings suggest novel genetic and molecular targets that could lead to discoveries of new prevention strategies and treatment for the disorder.