June 25, 2020
The University of California San Diego today announced the next step in its Return to Learn program, which will guide an incremental repopulation of the campus while offering broad, asymptomatic testing for faculty, staff and students on a recurring basis to detect the presence of SARS-CoV-2, the no
June 1, 2020
The National Science Foundation awards two SDSC researchers funding to organize COVID-19 information into a knowledge network that integrates health, pathogen, and environmental data to track cases across greater San Diego.
August 4, 2022
…to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HPV infects more than 13 million people every year and is prevalent in both men and women. HPV infections, if left undetected, can last for decades before eventually developing into cancer. HPV causes approximately 36,000 new cases of cancer in men and…
April 22, 2013
An international team of neuroscientists has described for the first time in exhaustive detail the underlying neurobiology of an amnesiac who suffered from profound memory loss after damage to key portions of his brain.
October 10, 2013
…new ways to reduce infections by having physicians think of new solutions. You have to do the basic research to understand how a biological system works. You have to understand how the brain works in order to understand how to attack diseases like Alzheimer’s or other neurodegenerative disorders, which are…
July 22, 2015
Far from being selfish organisms whose sole purpose is to maximize their own reproduction, bacteria in large communities work for the greater good by resolving a social conflict among individuals to enhance the survival of their entire community.
May 26, 2017
In a small, randomized Phase I/II clinical trial (SAT1), researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine say a 100-year-old drug called suramin, originally developed to treat African sleeping sickness, was safely administered to children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), who subsequently displayed measurable, but transient, improvement in…
March 23, 2017
…83 Brazilian children with presumed or confirmed ZIKV congenital infections.
June 23, 2020
A team of engineers and physicians at the University of California San Diego has developed a low-cost, easy-to-use emergency ventilator for COVID-19 patients that is built around a ventilator bag usually found in ambulances.
September 15, 2020
UC San Diego researchers discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 virus can’t grab hold of cell receptor ACE2 without a carbohydrate called heparan sulfate, which is also found on lung cell surfaces — disrupting that interaction with a repurposed drug may help treat COVID-19.
