Post-COVID Lung Disease Shares Origins with Other Scarring Lung Disorders
July 20, 2022
UC San Diego researchers provide first insights into the fundamental cellular pathologies that drive interstitial lung disease in patients post-COVID.
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Neurons Stripped of Their Identity Are Hallmark of Alzheimer’s Disease, Study Finds
November 13, 2020
UC San Diego researchers have identified new mechanisms in neurons that cause Alzheimer’s disease. In particular, they discovered that structural changes in chromatin trigger neurons to lose their specialized function and revert to a precursor-like state.
Negative Fateful Life Events and the Brains of Middle-Aged Men
April 5, 2018
Conflict, a death in the family, financial hardship and serious medical crises are all associated with accelerated physical aging. In a new study, researchers at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine found that such negative fateful life events — or FLEs — appear to also specifically accelerate…
Immune Cells Infiltrating Tumors May Play Bigger Cancer Role Than Previously Thought
June 22, 2020
UC San Diego researchers uncovered in mice how IRE1α, a molecule involved in cells’ response to stress, determines whether macrophages promote inflammation in the tumor microenvironment. Inflammation is known to promote tumor growth, making IRE1α an attractive target for drug development.
Researcher Links Diplomats’ Mystery Illness to Radiofrequency/Microwave Radiation
August 29, 2018
Writing in advance of the September 15 issue of Neural Computation, Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, professor of medicine at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, says publicly reported symptoms and experiences of a “mystery illness” afflicting American and Canadian diplomats in Cuba and China strongly match known effects…
Targeting Newly Discovered Pathway Sensitizes Tumors to Radiation and Chemotherapy
September 3, 2015
In some patients, aggressive cancers can become resistant to chemotherapy and radiation treatments. In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers identified a pathway that causes the resistance and a new therapeutic drug that targets this pathway.
San Diego Supercomputer Center’s ‘Comet’ Aids in Sickle Cell Research Discovery
December 10, 2020
Researchers recently created detailed simulations on the Comet system at the San Diego Supercomputer Center showing how these stiff red blood cells flow through blood vessels, deforming and colliding along the way.
Mitochondrial DNA Mutations Linked to Heart Disease Risk
August 4, 2022
UC San Diego and Salk Institute researchers report a surprising link between mitochondria, inflammation and gene mutations that may increase risk of atherosclerosis.
The Ilk of Human Kindness
April 17, 2014
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that older women, plucky individuals and those who have suffered a recent major loss are more likely to be compassionate toward strangers than other older adults.
The Thinking Undead: How Dormant Bacteria Calculate Their Return to Life
October 6, 2022
Facing extreme conditions such as starvation and stress, some bacterial cells enter a dormant state in which life processes stop. Biologists have discovered how they assess environmental conditions for a return to life, carrying implications for evaluating life on Earth as well as other planets.
