Cooked Crustaceans, Cannabis and a Budder Way
June 29, 2021
Researchers expose live lobsters to vaporized cannabis and confirm the crustaceans absorb THC. Whether the psychoactive compound affects behavior remains open question.
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“Molecular Rosetta Stone” Reveals How our Microbiome Talks to Us
March 11, 2024
Researchers from Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science at the University of California San Diego have uncovered thousands of previously unknown bile acids, a type of molecule used by our gut microbiome to communicate with the rest of the body.
Neurosciences Ph.D. Student Wins Grad SLAM Top Prize
April 23, 2024
Grad SLAM campus champion Iris Garcia-Pak will take her three-minute research talk entitled “The Brain: An Exclusive VIP Club” to the UC Grad SLAM Final Round in San Francisco on May 3.
UC San Diego Receives $16 Million NIH FIRST Award
September 20, 2022
The UC San Diego FIRST Program will recruit 12 diverse, early-career research faculty in the biomedical sciences and the implement strategies to improve faculty recruitment, retention, success and inclusion.
Call for Citizen Scientists to Contribute to COVID-19 Studies
April 9, 2020
…an associate professor of pharmacology at UC San Diego School of Medicine, who is working with Knight and team. “By the very next afternoon, BD was delivering caseloads to my lab. The collaboration, speed and efficiency of everyone involved, the willingness to cut through red tape, is unprecedented and moving.”…
SDSC’s Comet Helps Replicate Brain Circuitry to Direct a Realistic Prosthetic Arm
May 11, 2017
By applying a novel computer algorithm to mimic how the brain learns, a team of researchers – with the aid of the Comet supercomputer based at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at UC San Diego – has identified and replicated neural circuitry that resembles the way an unimpaired brain…
Nine UC San Diego Professors Named 2011 AAAS Fellows
December 9, 2011
Nine professors at the University of California, San Diego have been named 2011 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation’s largest scientific organization.
Seeing is Understanding
March 8, 2018
…bacteria. As professor of pharmacology, chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego School of Medicine, Tsien continued his research, mentored students and postdoctoral trainees and taught classes for 27 years. When he died in 2016, social media literally illuminated in his memory, with scientists around the world posting images of…
A Man of Letters, Carefully Sequenced
October 30, 2014
…of chemistry, biochemistry and pharmacology at UC San Diego. “Rapid DNA sequencing is now pivotal in all areas of biology and medicine, but very few scientists who use this technology every day remember the crucial role that Fred Sanger played in making this a reality,” he said. “Perhaps it is…
Embryonic Brain Overgrowth Dictates Autism Severity, New Research Suggests
June 17, 2024
Researchers at UC San Diego found an unusually large brain may be the first sign of autism and visible as early as the first trimester.
