Metabolic Syndrome, a cluster of health symptoms including obesity, high blood pressure and insulin resistance, puts one in four American at increased risk for diabetes, heart disease and stroke. New studies offer the potential for future treatment.
Biologists have discovered a gene that plays a key role in initiating changes in the brain in response to sensory experience, a finding that may provide insight into certain types of learning disorders.
The UCSD Departent of Medicine, Pulmonary Division, was recently awarded a 5-year, $6.2 million contract by the U.S. National Institutes of Health to establish the Tuberculosis Curriculum Coordinating Center (TCCC).
Blood pressure reading taken on arms parallel, or extended in the same direction as the body, are up to 10 percent higher than readings taken when the elbow is at a right angle to the body with elbow flexed at heart level.
Biologists have determined how toxin produced by anthrax bacteria blocks a person's normal immune response, a discovery that could lead to new treatments for anthrax infection.
Two undergraduates will represent UC San Diego at an annual research showcase for California lawmakers and university groups in Sacramento.
UC San Diego professor Jack Wolf wins the 2004 IEEE Hamming Medal for "fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of information transmission and storage.
Structural engineers are building the first blast simulator, designed to study structural damage caused by bomb blasts -- without creating actual explosions. They will also test new techniques to protect buildings by "hardening" them with composite overlays.
Using an orbiting camera designed to block the light from the sun and stars, an international team of solar physicists has been able for the first time to directly image clouds of electrons surrounding Earth that travel from the sun during periods of solar flare activity.
Award initiates program on understanding ocean threats, providing solutions.
A better understanding of a baffling, frequently misdiagnosed disease called Multiple Systems Atrophy will be sought by researchers at 12 sites in the U.S. as part of a five-year, $7 million grant from the NIH.
FCC Chairman Michael Powell will speak about "Charting the Future of the Telecom Industry" at UC San Diego Dec. 9, and the event will be webcast live worldwide over the Internet.
UC San Diego will host leaders from the Bush Administration, industry, academia and non-governmental organizations, for the annual meeting of the United States Business Council for Sustainable Development, and a daylong workshop on water resources.
Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, M.D., professor of Family and Preventive Medicine and chief of the Division of Epidemiology, received the 2003 Research Achievement Award from the American Heart Association (AHA) during the organization's annual Scientific Sessions November 10, 2003 in Orlando, Florida.
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.
In the largest study ever of HIV-infected children, researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have demonstrated that a child's individual genetic factors are an important determinant of disease progression and cognitive impairment associated with HIV.
Researchers at UCSD will deploy next-generation lightpath technology of Canada's BigBangwidth as part of the NSF-funded OptIPuter project. It will allow network devices to transmit large data streams without going through a LAN.
A team of experts from the San Diego Supercomputer Center will assemble one of the Top 500 caliber supercomputers in the world in a matter of hours, at the Supercomputer 2003 conference in Phoenix, AZ, on Nov. 18.
Scientists have documented what they are calling possibly the most extreme case of animal structure elongation documented to date.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the description of DNA structure by James Watson and Francis Crick, the Gene Therapy Program at UCSD and the journal, Science, will bring together many of the world renowned scientists who have spearheaded the era of molecular medicine.
The use of sophisticated wireless technology to coordinate and enhance care of mass casualties in a terrorist attack or natural disaster is the focus of a new research project at the University of California, San Diego, funded by the National Library of Medicine.
For his study of life's origins, a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Pharmacology at the UCSD School of Medicine, has been named to receive the prestigious $25,000 Young Scientist Prize awarded by Amersham Biosciences and the journal, Science.
Two UCSD School of Medicine researchers will receive two of the first grants in a three-year scientific reconnasissance mission aimed at discovering all the parts of the human genome that are crucial to biological function.
Jon Isenberg, M.D., professor emeritus of medicine at the UCSD School of Medicine and an internationally recognized gastroenterologist noted for his work in peptic ulcer disease, died peacefully at his La Jolla home on October 10.
Scientists have developed a new, improved version of the basic Good-Turing estimator formula that helped crack Germany's Enigma code in World War II. The formula could have implications for better speech recognition, machine learning, and information retrieval.
More than 40 speakers will participate in a dozen workshops and other sessions at the VentureForth Entrepreneurs Conference on Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Price Center on UC San Diego's La Jolla campus. The event is sponsored by the student group VentureForth.
A team of scientists has identified a gene that controls the production by terrestrial plants of methyl halides, gaseous compounds that contribute to the destruction of ozone in the stratosphere.
Scientists have corroborated a new theory of how genomic rearrangements happen in the course of evolution, and the scientist who originated that view is now comparing those evolutionary 'earthquakes' to the chromosomal rearrangements that cause diseases such as breast cancer.
By taking a fresh approach to an old problem biologists have found a new gene essential for plant growth, a discovery that could lead to the design of better herbicides and even novelty plants.
Researchers have demonstrated that Methotrexate, a promising drug to treat hearing loss in patients with autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED), proved no more effective than placebo in a recently concluded four-year study.
Students at UCSD's newest undergraduate college will use video equipment donated by Sony as part of the school's new curriculum based on art, culture and technology.
For his exceptional creativity and originality in research revealing secrets of ancient cities, University of California, San Diego anthropological archaeologist Guillermo Algaze has been named a MacArthur Foundation fellow. The $500,000 "genius" grant was awarded with no strings attached.
In recognition of its "innovative approach to cutting costs, solving problems, and increasing efficiency," the University of California, San Diego has been inducted into the Balanced Scorecard Hall of Fame.
A multi-center effort has determined in mouse models of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) that the nerve cells, or neurons, involved in ALS can be wither damaged or saved from degeneration by neighboring non-neuronal cells.
A study by biochemists explains why infections of Pseudomonas bacteria, which affect 200,000 hospitalized patients each year in the United States, can be so dangerous to cells within the body, and points to new ways to treat those infections.
The world's first film festival dedicated to Chinese underground films will be held at the University of California, San Diego. The three-day event will feature thirteen films and four lectures delivered by distinguished film directors and scholars.
An internationally respected immunologist and cancer biologist has been named as the new director of the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center. Dennis Carson, M.D., will take the helm of the region's only federally designated comprehensive cancer center, effective November 10.
A non-human, cellular molecule is absorbed into human tissues as a result of eating red meat and milk products, according to a study by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine.
A naturally occurring variation in an essential gene can suppress genetic mutations caused by retroviruses in mice, according to a new discovery by researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine.
Students, staff, dignitaries and guests gathered to celebrate as UCSD broke ground on September 25 on a state-of-the art, 104,000-square-foot facility to house the personnel and programs of the new UCSD School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and The Center for the Advancement of Genomics (TCAG) today announced a formal collaboration in genomic medicine that combines large-scale human genome analysis with innovative medical research.
Researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have linked a defective protein in Huntington's disease to gridlock in the transportation system that moves signals and vital protein cargoes within the brain, eventually leading to neuron cell death.
A team of biologists working in Brazil may have found the clues to resolving the longstanding mystery of why some species of bees, such as honey bees, communicate the location of food with dances in their hives and why other bees simply leave scent trails from the food source to the nest.
One of the nation's preeminent, and most prescient, economists, Yale Professor Robert Shiller, will speak at a UCSD Economics Roundtable breakfast on Friday, Oct. 10, at 7:30 a.m. at the Faculty Club on the University of California, San Diego campus.
Twenty-one UCSD researchers will receive more than $14.3 million from the National Science Foundation for ten new projects in the information-technology arena, to investigate topics ranging from how to make cryptography easier to use, to better simulations of cell physiology.
J. Christian Gillin, M.D., a renowned sleep specialist and professor of psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, died of esophageal cancer on Saturday, September 13, 2003. He was 65.
In a unique and unprecedented collaboration, UCSD Libraries and three other San Diego libraries will hold an exhibition Sept. 20 through Nov. 8 of current and retrospective works by San Diego artist Joyce Cutler-Shaw. An opening reception for the artist will be held Sept. 20 at UCSD.
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.
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