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?
A new University of California, San Diego program in sound design will train students to build "auditory sets." Mixing high-tech computing with musical composition skills, the MFA program contends that sound can be an integral part of any theatrical production.
University of California San Diego Healthcare and the California Poison Control System offer these seasonal tips to help keep the season safe.
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.
Two ships taking part in a recently completed research voyage investigating the oceanography, marine geology, geophysics and ice cover of the Arctic Ocean have become the first surface vessels to traverse the Canada Basin, the ice-covered sea between Alaska and the North Pole.
More than 470 physicists, including seven Nobel laureates, have signed a petition to oppose a new U.S. Defense Department proposal that allows the United States to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states.
Advancing further into its second century of discovery, Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), has unveiled a new research center aimed at the burgeoning science of genomics.
A human red blood cell is a dimpled ballerina, ceaselessly spinning, tumbling, bending, and squeezing through openings narrower than its width to dispense life-giving oxygen to every corner of the body.
Described by its creator as "speculative distributed cinema," a live and site-specific multimedia project called SPECFLIC will stream for the first time at the University of California, San Diego on Oct. 28. Audience to participate in story by cell phone and laptop.
Genetic material derisively called "junk" DNA because it does not contain the instructions for protein-coding genes and appears to have little or no function is actually critically important to an organism's evolutionary survival, according to a study conducted by a biologist at UCSD.
Scientists aboard the Scripps research vessel Roger Revelle this week solved a 45-year-old geological mystery.
Researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have announced successful completion of Phase II clinical trials of a novel drug for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), one that works without suppressing the patient's immune system.
Researchers at UCSD have been awarded $760,000 from the NIEHS to build a GIS. This system will link to the NIEHS Hurricane Katrina Information Website, providing workers in the field and researchers with up-to-date information regarding toxicant exposure and human health.
In a demonstration that could foretell the future of videoconferencing, scientific visualization and digital cinema deployment, scientists at iGrid 2005 were treated to the world's first real-time, international transmission of super high-definition digital video.
Chronically high levels of insulin, as is found in people with Type II diabetes, may block a specific hormone that is a trigger for releasing energy into the body, according to researchers at UCSD School of Medicine.
A team led by University of California, San Diego biochemists has discovered the mechanism by which a simple organism can produce 10 trillion varieties of a single protein, a finding that provides a new tool to develop novel drugs.
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