Two University of California, San Diego faculty and four artists represented in the university's Stuart Collection are featured in the Emmy Award-nominated PBS series Art: 21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century.
Gary S. Firestein, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology at the UCSD School of Medicine, has been named founding Director of the UCSD Health Sciences Clinical Investigation Institute (CII).
Two short protein segments, called peptides, have been identified by researchers for their ability to recognize and bind to beta-amyloid-containing plaques that accumulate abnormally in the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients.
A team has developed techniques to reduce power consumption in 3G cell phone transmitters, dramatically improving talk times. The project placed second in the premier international student chip-design contest organized by the Semiconductor Research Corporation.
Physicians may be a step closer to pre-natal diagnosis of a rare genetic disorder called Joubert syndrome. This condition, present before birth, affects an area of the brain controlling balance and coordination.
Researchers found a significant reduction in non-beneficial life sustaining treatments for dying patients in hospital intensive care units when health care providers and family members were provided with ethics counseling.
The NSF will fund a $1.8 million advanced wireless and wired Grid network on the UC San Diego campus, to facilitate experimental computer science and telecommunications research.
Twenty UC San Diego engineers will receive $3.5 million from the State of California and industry partners for eight major projects in wireless communications over the next two years. Research will be conducted through the school's Center for Wireless Communications.
The first line of defense used by the human blood-brain barrier in response to bacterial meningitis is described by researchers.
Chemists have developed minute grains of silicon that spontaneously assemble, orient and sense their local environment, a first step toward the development of robots the size of sand grains that could be used in medicine, bioterrorism surveillance and pollution monitoring.
The UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology [Cal-(IT)2] will showcase its current research projects and focus on future technologies at a conference and open house in late September.
Chemists have developed a novel method of detecting molecules with a conventional compact disk player that provides scientists with an inexpensive way to screen for molecular interactions and a potentially cheaper alternative to medical diagnostic tests.
A broad international collaboration of scientists has uncovered the first genetic blueprints of organisms critically important in the world's ecological makeup.
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will lead an ambitious national effort to produce a detailed understanding of the structure and function of lipids "“ cellular fats and oils implicated in a wide range of diseases, including heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.
Researchers have identified a previously unknown component of the body's cellular garbage disposal called the ubiquitin system, which is responsible for regulation of cell function by removal of abnormal and uneeded proteins.
The brain is constantly striving to find meaning in things, even in situations where there is no meaning. This attempt to find meaning can often lead to what music perception pioneer Diana Deutsch calls 'illusions in the brain.'
The von Liebig Center at UCSD has awarded $300,000 to six projects pioneered by engineering faculty at the university, to help move the technology from their labs to the market. The technologies range from a video-enabled wireless Walkie-Talkie, to a new way to detect a bio-terrorist attack.
Researchers have provided new evidence that resolves a long-standing scientific controversy regarding human visual attention and the ability to divide that attention between more than one stimulus within a broad visual field.
Small head circumference at birth, followed by a sudden and excesssive increase in head circumference during the first year of life, has been linked to development of autism by researchers at UCSD and Children's Hospital and Health Center, San Diego.
UCSD Medical Center, Hillcrest, Trauma Center has been verified again as San Diego's Level I trauma center by the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons.
Researchers at UCSD School of Medicine have shown that a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug applied as a creme directly to the skin is safe and effective in lessening muscle soreness experienced 24 to 48 hours following exercise, when soreness reaches its peak.
UCSD Medical Center, Hillcrest, is one of 10 hospital systems in the nation and the only facility in California selected for the Urgent Matters program, a national learning network designed to find solutions to the growing emergency department overcrowding crisis.
William G. Bradley, M.D., Ph.D., FACR, chair of the Department of Radiology at the UCSD School of Medicine, has received the highest honor bestowed by the Radiological Society of North America, the largest organization dedicated to radiology science and education. Bradley is the youngest physician scientist to receive an RSNA Gold Medal.
An interdisciplinary team of scientists has developed a new technique for slicing and imaging brain tissue that makes use of ultra-fast lasers.
Researchers describe a new class of proteins that not only promote therapeutic angiogenesis in an entirely new way, but also avoids vasular permeability.
The precise molecular interations that allow cyclooxygenase-2 enzymes to promote the development of colon cancer have been described for the first time by researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine.
Researchers at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center are conducting a clinical trial of an experimental therapy for chronic lymphocytic leukemia in which the patient's own T lymphocytes are modified to enhance their ability to mount a cancer-killing response.
An analysis of research studies with long-term, recreational users of marijuana has failed to reveal a substantial, systematic effect on the neurocognitive functioning of users.
Researchers at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center today launched a human trial of a new experimental vaccine - a type of gene therapy - for prostate cancer.
When Taiwan, one of the regions hardest hit by SARS, began looking for help combatting the spread of the virus, they recognized the value of Telescience technologies developed by UCSD affiliates, and contacted the National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research for help.
UCSD researchers uncovered evidence that major evolutionary changes are more likely to occur in approximately 400 'fragile' genomic regions that account for only 5 percent of the human genome.
UCSD researchers have identified a specific gene that causes bipolar disorder in a subset of patients who suffer from this debiliatating psychiatric illness.
The biochemical components that cause a more severe form of cystic fibrosis have been identified by UCSD researchers.
Large regions of the world, including China, are running out of Internet address space, and computer scientists are gearing up for the deployment of the next-generation Internet Protocol, version 6 (IPv6), the focus of a Global Summit June 24-27 in San Diego.
Scientists from the California Applications Program at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have found a link between variations in climate and the severity of wildfires.
As essential step in understanding how the brain develops and related brain disorders that occur when movement of neurons is defective, has been announced by researchers at UCSD School of Medicine.
Pioneering new techniques that could potentially extend brain-saving stroke treatment to more patients will begin at the University of California, San Diego Stroke Center with a $5 million, 5-year grant from the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke.
At the forefront of computing in the arts for the last three decades, an innovative partnership between the UCSD's programs in the arts and humanities and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology will deliver vastly greater resources to creative artists working in the digital arena.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have determined that a protein essential for the normal embryonic development of fruit flies is also used by mammals to assist in the timely healing of cuts and lacerations.
Specific information processing abnormalities and brain-related circuit dysfunction in schizophrenia patients may be the keys to finding the genetic basis of this puzzling, devastating mental illness that affects more than two million Americans.
With funding from a federal interagency organization for combating terrorism, scientists at UC San Diego are developing an automated system for detecting and tracking faces in a crowd through a network of 360-degree cameras which interact "intelligently."
UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Professor Rajesh Gupta, an expert in embedded systems for wireless and other sectors and the 'co-design' of hardware and software, has assumed the first Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Embedded Microsystems, funded by QUALCOMM.
Sydney Brenner, recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will deliver a commencement address entitled "The Worst Medical Student of 1950: A Personal Memoir," at the UCSD School of Medicine commencement.
Men are from Mars and women are from Venus, or so we've been told, and when it comes to jealousy this is especially true. Men, psychologists have long contended, tend to care more about sexual infidelity while women usually react more strongly to emotional infidelity.
Ming T. Tsuang, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., one of the world's top researchers in human genetics, behaviour and neuropsychiatric diseases, will join the faculty of UCSD School of Medicine this summer.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have isolated a defective cellular process within mouse retinas that is the cause of a severe form of blindness seen in people with a disorder called Usher syndrome 1B.
UCSD researchers have shown in mice that a vaccine for pneumonia also triggers elements of the immune system to reduce atherosclerosis, the build-up in the blood vessels, which leads to heart attack and stroke.
The New York Times has called him "a scientist on the frontier of climate research and an expert par excellence on El Niño." In 1984, he and a colleague devised the first numerical model able to simulate an El Niño event, a turning point in the science of the climatologically important phenomenon.
Scientists in Japan and at UCSD have discovered a novel regulatory role for one pseudogene. When the pseudogene is disabled, protein-production was compromised, with resulting abnormal kidneys an bones in laboratory mice.
The method that Staphylococcus aureus (staph) infection uses to inactivate the body's immune response and cause previously healthy B cells to commit suicide, is described for the first time by researchers at UCSD.
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