The European starling "“ long known as a virtuoso songbird and as an expert mimic too "“ may also soon gain a reputation as something of a "grammar-marm." This three-ounce bird, new research shows, can learn syntactic patterns formerly thought to be the exclusive province of humans.
"Changing Media, Changing China" is the title of a workshop to be held at the University of California, San Diego, May 5-6, to explore how the commercialization of media and the emergence of the Internet are affecting economic, social and political life in China.
Six scholars from the University of California, San Diego were named today as Fellows of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences, two in political science, two in medicine and one each in engineering and chemistry/biochemistry.
The University of California, San Diego will host a public conference, "Social Justice and Stem Cell Research," on Saturday, May 13, 2006. This free event will be held from 10 am "“ 4 pm in UCSD Center Hall, but attendance is limited. Registration is required at http://ethicscenter.net. A registration confirmation will include an agenda, directions, and parking instructions.
For the first time, scientists have documented an organ-specific innate immune system. In research published in the April 18 edition of the journal Immunity, scientists at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine outline the unique mechanism by which the lung shapes its defensive strategies against microbial invasion.
A scientific research consortium led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has reached an important milestone in the tracking of pollutants responsible for dimming Earth's atmosphere.
Thirteen of the nation's most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran "gravely irresponsible" and warning that such action would have "disastrous consequences for the security of the United States and the world."
The Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego today announced a new endowed faculty chair, which will be held by the dean of the Rady School of Management. The Stanley and Pauline Foster Endowed Chair is funded by a generous $5 million gift from philanthropist Pauline Foster, president of Foster Investment Group and an active volunteer and friend to UCSD.
On April 13, 2006, attendees at UC San Diego's Fiesta de las Estrellas scholarship benefit will have a chance to meet actor Ricardo Chavira of "Desperate Housewives" and Lisette Diaz, the current Miss World and UCSD student, along with local community leaders.
Scientists from UCSD are joining forces with colleagues from Australia's Monash University and the Australian Stem Cell Centre to create a powerful new international collaboration in stem cell research.
A mutation in blood stem cells occurs in patients with a blood disorder called polycythemia vera (PV), scientists at the Moores Cancer Center at UC, San Diego, and the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center at Stanford have confirmed.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have determined what factors turn on protein production in bacteria, a finding that provides new targets for the development of antibiotics.
A team led by physicists at the University of California, San Diego has shown the feasibility of a fast, inexpensive technique to sequence DNA as it passes through tiny pores. The advance brings personalized, genome-based medicine closer to reality.
Harvard Kennedy School of Government Professor George Borjas, often called America's "leading immigration economist," will address the University of California, San Diego Economics Roundtable, May 3, beginning at 7:30 a.m. at the Faculty Club on the UCSD campus.
Jerry Swartz, Ph.D., a New York entrepreneur, electrical engineer and inventor of the handheld barcode laser scanner, will be honored by UCSD for his support and leadership of UCSD's innovative studies of brain rhythms and the role they play in human cognition and awareness.
To analyze and integrate massive amounts of complicated data so that it is useful to cancer patients and their physicians, the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego is creating a major center for bioinformatics.
The largest habitats on Earth are located in the vast, dark plains at the bottom of the ocean. Yet because of their remoteness, many aspects of this mostly unexplored world remain mysterious.
Researchers have discovered that blocking an intracellular signaling enzyme in a key pathway may lead to effective new treatments to fight rheumatoid arthritis.
Novel application of MRI leads to new tools for online digital dissection of preserved fishes from one of the world's most valuable natural history collections.
A study indicates that the rate of HIV/AIDS infection in Tijuana, Mexico is increasing, and much higher than had been previously estimated. The findings are based on data compiled by a team of researchers working in San Diego and Mexico to create a population-based model in order to estimate HIV infection rates.
Researchers at UCSD School of Medicine have discovered that so-called flesh-eating "Strep" bacteria use a specific enzyme to break free of the body's immune system, a finding which could potentially lead to new treatments for serious infections in human patients.
Scientists have had tantalizing clues that cancer cells and neighboring non-cancerous cells in the body communicate with one another. This dialog may explain the clinical observation that cancer cells grow to make secondary tumors (metastasize) in some organs of the body and not others.
Interaction between prostate cancer cells and immune cells called macrophages may be a source of inflammatory signals capable of impacting the effectiveness of androgen antagonists, the most common and effective treatment for prostate cancer, according to a new study.
UCSD School of Medicine collaborative study with Boston University's Slone Epidemiology Center found an increased risk of persistent pulmonary hypertension (PPHN) in newborns of mothers who used certain commonly prescribed antidepressants in late pregnancy.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine have developed a mouse model that could help scientists develop better drugs to fight autoimmune and inflammatory disorders such as multiple sclerosis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Recollection and familiarity are both elements of recognition memory and both, new research suggests, are functions of the brain's hippocampus. The UC San Diego study addresses one of the central debates in the neuroanatomy of memory, contradicting a recent body of other work.
Deadly and damaging toxins that allow anthrax to cause disease and death in mammals have similar toxic effects in fruit flies, according to a study conducted by biologists at the University of California, San Diego.
An analysis of seven tropical forests around the world has found that nature encourages diversity by selecting for less common trees as the trees mature.
Paul Dayton, a biological oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, will be the first recipient of a new international ecology prize awarded in honor of one of the field's founding fathers.
The UCSD has received approval to improve its patient services by constructing a new Cardiovascular Center, and expanding critical care services at the John M. and Sally B. Thornton Hospital. The action was taken by the University of California Board of Regents at its meeting on Thursday, January 19.
A scientific symposium on celiac disease, "Genetic and Immune Mechanisms in Celiac Disease," will be held at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine on Friday, February 10, from 8:30 a.m. to 12 noon.
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation awarded $24.5 million over seven years to UC San Diego, Calit2 and J. Craig Venter Institute to create the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Marine Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis (CAMERA).
Like a family of petty criminals gone wrong, researchers were surprised to find that bacterial pathogens found in a number of troublesome diseases are actually related. Not only that, their wrong-doing is carried out by disguising themselves, then hijacking their hosts.
Sediment cores collected from the seafloor off Southern California reveal that plankton populations in the Northeastern Pacific changed significantly in response to a general warming trend that started in the early 1900s.
Researchers report that they now have the roadmap they need to stop metastasis in one of the most aggressive and deadly pediatric cancers, neuroblastoma, and possibly other cancer types.
New research produced by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography helps illustrate how global warming caused by greenhouse gases can quickly disrupt ocean processes and lead to drastic climatological, biological and other important changes around the world.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine took a step closer to understanding the basis of a severe epilepsy and mental retardation syndrome.
A new study reports the discovery of a molecular link between a high-fat, or Western-style, diet, and the disruption of insulin production, explaining how a high-fat diet causes type 2 diabetes.
Taking 1,000 international units of vitamin D3 daily appears to lower an individual's risk of developing certain cancers "“ including colon, breast, and ovarian cancer "“ by up to 50 percent, according to cancer prevention specialists at the Moores Cancer Center at the Medical Center.
As long as children have carried their books and belongings in backpacks they have complained of shoulder and back pain. UCSD School of Medicine-led team found that how loads are distributed under backpack straps may help identify the source of shoulder and back pain in children.
Gerald Kooyman, emeritus professor of biology at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, will be the first recipient of a new lifetime achievement award bestowed by the Society for Marine Mammalogy.
Thanks to a $2.5 million gift from the Oklahoma-based William K. Warren Foundation, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine will be able to step up the fight against celiac disease, a disease estimated to affect one in 100 Americans.
The bronchial tubes of a patient with severe asthma can become scarred due to repeated episodes of allergic inflammation in the airways. The scarring results in blocked airways, excessive production of mucus, and shortness of breath.
If our modern clinical chemistry, toxicology, immunology, and infectious disease labs had existed during the 16th to early-19th centuries, the world might have missed out on the work of some of the world's most creative artists.
In the looming future, global warming will reduce glaciers and storage packs of snow in regions around the world, causing water shortages and other problems that will impact millions of people.
UCSD School of Medicine Researchers have developed a series of transgenic mouse models of multiple system atrophy, a progressive, fatal neurological disorder.
Students in the School of Medicine and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego are poised to be among the leaders of tomorrow in the important area of clinical research studies.
As Earth becomes increasingly tested on a variety of environmental fronts"”climate warming, global pollution and natural hazards, to name a few"”new ways of observing and monitoring planetary changes have become critical to developing solutions for science and society.
Transport yourself to the tiny world of molecules in Birch Aquarium's newest exhibit, Sea of Genes, opening on November 19 at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps, the exploration center for Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
Publications in peer-reviewed journals are the yardstick by which academic scientists compare their work with their colleagues. But is the best measure of a scientist's worth the total number of his or her published papers?
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