June 2, 2016
University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers are expanding the American Gut Project into Asia. The goal of American Gut, the world’s largest crowdfunded citizen science project, is to sequence as many human microbiomes — the unique collection of bacteria and other microbes that live in and on…
May 16, 2023
InnerScience Research Fund has committed to provide up to $10 million to the University of California San Diego over the next five years to support research on how meditation may impede the progression of serious terminal and chronic illnesses that affect millions of people each year.
May 7, 2020
…it bears repeating: proper sleep, exercise and nutrition habits are more important now than ever. “We know stress suppresses the immune system,” Green said. School closures and isolated living pose many challenges to the UC San Diego community, who may be feeling new pressures on multiple fronts. People are working…
November 29, 2011
…hormone deficiencies, developmental delay, sleep dysfunction and seizures. ONH is an underdevelopment of the optic nerve (the nerve that carries visual information from the eye to the brain) in one or both eyes. The degree of vision impairment with ONH varies, from near-normal vision to no light perception at all.…
May 16, 2016
Researchers at the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UC San Diego have developed a technique for imaging brain activity in a freely walking fruit fly. Working with one of the most common model organisms in science, the team shows for the first time what goes on in the…
November 6, 2013
A new study by a researcher at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, says that by 2015, the sum of media asked for and delivered to consumers on mobile devices and to their homes would take more than 15 hours a day to…
January 7, 2021
Chemicals used for vaping break down zipper-like junctions between cells in the gut, leading to chronic inflammation and potential for other health concerns.
November 14, 2016
The new performance-exhibition, “The Pawel Norway Dream Machine”, will premiere next Thursday, November 17, at the Calit2 Theater in Atkinson Hall on the UC San Diego campus from 5-7 p.m.
November 30, 2020
UC San Diego researchers discovered that the makeup of a person’s gut microbiome is linked to their levels of active vitamin D, and revealed a new understanding of vitamin D and how it’s typically measured.
December 18, 2018
Moderate to severe loneliness can persist across adult lifespans, but UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers found it is particularly acute in three age periods: late-20s, mid-50s and late-80s. Wisdom proved a protective factor.
