UCSD's new Center for Networked Systems has held its first research review since its inception last July, and showcased progress so far on seven projects approved by the center's five industry members: AT&T, Alcatel, Qualcomm, HP and Sun Microsystems.
Currently available lines of human embryonic stem cells have been contaminated with a non-human molecule that compromises their potential therapeutic use in human subjects, according to research at UCSD and the Salk Institute in La Jolla.
Engineering researchers at the University of California, San Diego are using the shell of a seaweed-eating snail as a guide in the development of a new generation of bullet-stopping armor.
The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California announced today that the first production 10 gigabit Ethernet campus connection in the United States was installed from the University of California, San Diego to CENIC's high-performance backbone network, CalREN.
UCSD medical researchers have discovered the molecular sequence of events in mice that turn a juvenile heart into an adult heart capable of responding to increased workloads.
A self-management program for individuals with advanced age-related macular degeneration (AMD) leads to lasting improvements in mood and function, especially in depressed patients, in AMD patients.
An international team of astronomers has discovered within the heart of a nearby spiral galaxy a quasar whose light spectrum indicates that it is billions of light years away. The finding poses a cosmic puzzle: How could a galaxy 300 million light years away contain a stellar object several billion light years away?
How is a language born? What are its essential elements? Linguists are gaining new insights into these age-old conundrums from a language created in a small village in Israel's Negev Desert.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have found a fundamental mechanism used by embryonic stem cells to assure that genetically damaged stem cells do not divide and pass along the damage to daughter stem cells.
UCSD postdoc Ben Raphael will use the $500,000 over five years awarded to him by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund to support his computational approach to analyzing cancer genomes, including brain, breast and prostate cancer genomes.
More Americans die from natural causes on Christmas, the day after and New Year's than on any other days of the year.
Computer scientist Jeanne Ferrante and electrical engineer Truong Nguyen -- both professors at UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering -- have been elected IEEE Fellows, effective January 1, 2005.
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD and their colleagues have taken a significant step forward in developing a new method to produce drug compounds with potential to treat various types of cancer.
The structural changes including airway scarring and inflammation that contribute to severe breathing problems associated with asthma were significantly reversed in mice treated with immunostimulatory sequences of DNA, a novel therapy developed by researchers.
Scientists have crossed an important threshold in an international effort to deploy a global network of robotic instruments to monitor and investigate important changes in the world's oceans.
Drugs that work in the liver to reduce fatty triglyceride levels and improve insulin resistance, are also effective at inhibiting the formation of cholesterol-laden plaques that cause atherosclerosis.
Biologists have identified a gene that appears to have been a critical trait in allowing the earliest plant breeders 7,000 years ago to transform teosinte, a wild grass that grows in the Mexican Sierra Madre, into maize, the world's third most planted crop after rice and wheat.
Robert Pedowitz, M.D., Ph.D., is gearing up for the annual stream of winter sports injuries from skiers, snowboarders and other sports enthusiasts.
A voyage to investigate the causes of one of the most devastating tsunamis in United States history has uncovered new mysteries about biological and geological processes off Alaska.
News coverage of the war in Iraq will be the subject of a panel discussion at the University of California, San Diego on Tuesday, Nov. 30, at 4:30 p.m. Participants will include a top journalism educator, a leading television national security producer and a highly respected newspaper editorial director. The public is invited to attend the event, which will be held at The Weaver Center of the Institute of the Americas on the UCSD campus.
Judith L. Swain, M.D., a distinguished molecular cardiologist and chair of the department of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has been named the first Director of the College of Integrated Life Sciences (COILS) at UCSD.
This holiday season UCSD Healthcare Tom Savides, M.D., expects to see a fair number of patients complaining of indigestion and heartburn. But there's another, lesser-known emergency that happens frequently during the holiday season.
Every year during the holidays, emergency rooms like those at UCSD Medical Center see patients with symptoms of palpitations and light-headedness. This condition, called "Holiday Heart", is a result from over-indulgence of alcohol.
The response of blood vessels to low oxygen levels may be the Achilles' heel of a developing tumor, according to a study led by University of California, San Diego biologists.
A small number of people have a condition called familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome, in which individuals are afflicted by rash, fever, joint pain and flu-like symptoms after exposure to cold conditions as mild as an air-conditioned room.
An article that developed an improved decoding algorithm for error-correcting codes that are used today in communication and storage devices ranging from computer hard drives to deep-space probes was selected as the top paper about information theory in the past two years.
Could it be that cellist Yo-Yo Ma owes his perfect musical pitch to his Chinese parents? While we may never know the definitive answer, new research has found a strong link between speaking a tone language and having perfect pitch.
Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a method that uses dust-sized chips of silicon to surround and precisely direct the motion of molecules, cells, bacteria and other miniscule objects within a tiny drop of liquid.
With the holidays approaching, persons with memory impairment or behavioral problems may not feel comfortable in large family gatherings. However, there is much that loved ones can do to make these individuals a part of the holiday celebrations.
The Chief of Sports Medicine Service for UCSD Healthcare's Department of Orthopaedic Surgery says the barrage happens every year but adds that doesn't have to be the case.
Caring for a loved one with a serious disease can be both a deeply rewarding and stressful experience, especially during the holidays.
University of California, San Diego neurobiologists have discovered a chemical responsible for the bursts of electrical activity in the brain that guide the development of the visual system, a finding that may bring rewiring of damaged visual circuits closer to reality.
Venezuelan-U.S. relations, in the aftermath of the recent recall referendum that retained in office President Hugo Chavez Frias, will be the subject of a panel discussion at the University of California, San Diego on Nov. 4 from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
V. Ramanathan has been appointed by Pope John Paul II to be an academician of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Ramanathan will receive the honor from the pope during the academy's Plenary Session in Rome the week of Nov. 5-8.
UCSD School of Medicine researchers have discovered the gene for a form of Joubert Syndrome, a condition present before birth that affects an area of the brain controlling balance and coordination in about 1 in 10,000 individuals.
Psychiatric researchers at UCSD School of Medicine have received a five-year, $1.25 million grant from the National Institutes of Mental Health to study how patients with Bipolar Affective Disorder, regulate their behaviors and thoughts.
Transplantation of human brain cells corrected involuntary muscle spasms in rats with ischemic spinal cord injury, according to research published by investigators at UCSD School of Medicine.
A subset of major depressive disorder can be effectively treated with a drug called a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, a multi-center study.
The National Science Foundation today awarded $3.9 million over four years to the University of Washington, the University of California, San Diego and partner institutions to build the Laboratory for the Ocean Observatory Knowledge Integration Grid.
Spatial memory is more vulnerable than object recognition memory when damage occurs in the brain's memory processing center, the hippocampus, according to memory specialists.
The NSF has awarded $6.2 million over five years for the creation of a Center for Epidemiology and Defenses, part of the agency's new Cyber Trust program. CIED will be based at UC San Diego and the UC Berkeley-affiliated International Computer Science Institute.
A single gene called cylE within the important bacterial pathogen Group B Streptococcus (GBS), controls two factors that act together as a "sword" and "shield" to protect the bacteria.
A graduate student, postdoctoral researcher and faculty member at the University of California, San Diego, have been named to the 2004 list of the world's 100 Top Young Innovators, which was announced today by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation.
A new strategy for cancer therapy, which converts the tumor-promoting effect of the immune system's inflammatory response into a cancer-killing outcome, is suggested in research findings by investigators at the UCSD School of Medicine.
An under-recognized condition called subclavian artery stenosis "“ an obstruction of arteries located under the clavicle is important in the diagnosis and treatment of high blood pressure, according to a study.
The top pharmacist at the National Institutes of Health, Charles E. Daniels, Ph.D., comes to UCSD October 1, 2004 in the newly created position of Pharmacist in Chief for UCSD Healthcare. In addition, he will serve as Associate Dean.
Researchers report that a significant number of pediatric physicians fail to diagnose Kawasaki disease in children younger than six months and older than eight years.
A technique that uses bright fluorescent dyes to reveal the activity of genes in individual cells of an organism, promises to be a boon to developmental biologists, and may provide new insight into how cancerous tumors begin and grow.
A new gene-silencing technique that takes place in the nucleus of human cells, has been demonstrated by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine and the VA San Diego Healthcare System.
Researchers have demonstrated that inactivation of a gene involved in the inflammatory process can dramatically reduce tumor development in mice with a gastrointestinal form of cancer.
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