Faculty members from the UCSD School of Medicine have been elected to membership in 3 prestigious organizations, the Association of American Physicians, the American Society of Clinical Investigators, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
President George W. Bush has selected Charles David Keeling, a professor of oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, to receive the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest award for lifetime achievement in scientific research.
People who taste shapes, see numbers in colors, or feel sounds, were often told, until recently, that they were alone in their perceptions or even imagining things. But, recent research has shown that at least one in 2,000 people may be synesthetes, people who experience a blending of the senses when they smell, see, touch, hear, or taste.
Professor V. Ramanathan, an internationally renowned atmospheric scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has been elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences, an independent group of researchers with the responsibility for advising and counseling the federal government on scientific and technical matters.
To surfers, breaking waves represent the thrill and challenge at the core of their sport. To scientists who study interactions between the air and the sea, breaking waves represent one of the most vital air-sea exchange mechanisms.
A synthetic form of bacterial DNA, when administered to mice bred to model Inflammatory Bowel Disease, reduces the harmful effects of this serious intestinal disorder while enhancing the immune system.
Researchers at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer report that California's legislation prohibiting cigarette smoking in indoor workplaces is proving effective at reducing the amount of exposure to secondhand smoke among adult workers.
The UCSD School of Medicine has received a 5-year $3M grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for a Rheumatic Diseases Core Center designed to speed up the development of new diagnostic tools and therapies.
Scientists have developed a new molecular-tagging technique to chronicle the development, movement and interactions of proteins as they do their work in living cells.
Ginkgo bilobia, an over-the-counter herbal remedy used by many to boost mental awareness, has been shown in a medically supervised study to slow cognitive decline in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), a chronic, often disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system.
The muscle destruction associated with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, the most common childhood form of muscular dystrophy, is halted in mice when supplemental amounts of a naturally occurring enzyme are added to the skeletal muscle.
A team of international researchers from Germany, the Netherlands and San Diego, California, may have shed light on why chimps and humans are so genetically similar (nearly 99 percent of shared DNA sequences), and yet so mentally different.
Researchers report that "paper-and-pencil" neuropsychological tests administered to normal subjects averaging 75 years of age contained early signs of cognitive decline in those subjects who later developed Alzheimer's disease.
Award-winning poet Quincy Troupe has been nominated as one of three finalists for the state of California's first official poet laureate.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering have applied post-tensioning, a technique commonly used in the construction of concrete buildings and bridges, to create a new class of weld-free steel-framed structures. The initial test conducted in 2001 on a large-scale assembly indicated that the post-tensioned steel frames can absorb strong earthquake motions with little or no damage.
New research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has shown that in nature, size may not necessarily matter as much as we think.
Stephen M. Stahl, M.D., professor of psychiatry, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, will receive the Lundbeck International Neuroscience Foundation 2002 Prize for Education in Psychiatry and Neurology in ceremonies June 23 in Montreal, Canada at the 23rd Congress of the International College of Neuropsychopharmacology.
Development of the anterior pituitary gland, from a common primordium in the roof of the embryonic mouth into an organ comprising multiple distinct endocrine cell types, is described by two UCSD School of Medicine researchers.
The University of California San Diego Department of Psychiatry has received a grant of $1,579,163 from The California Endowment, the state's largest health foundation, to assist in the implementation of proposition 36, the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2002.
Bioengineers at the University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering have developed a gene therapy to prevent restenosis following angioplasty, and the University has recently been issued U.S. Patent # 6,335,010 for the invention. The experimental gene therapy reduced the formation of clogged arteries by more than one-half in large animal models.
The pesky Argentine ant, which has proliferated throughout the coastal regions of California, invading homes and displacing native species of ants, is also contributing to a sharp decline in the state's population of coastal horned lizards.
Although it's a common belief that 8 hours of sleep is required for optimal health, a six-year study of more than one million adults ages 30 to 102 has shown that people who get only 6 to 7 hours a night have a lower death rate.
An armada of autonomous marine "robots" deployed in the 1990s has helped produce new evidence that the Southern Ocean is warming faster than the rest of the world's oceans. Sarah Gille of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has uncovered a warming trend over the last 50 years through a comprehensive comparison of temperature points throughout the Antarctic Ocean.
Theodore C. Friedmann, M.S., professor of pediatrics, Muriel Jeannette Whitehill Chair in Biomedical Ethics, and director, UCSD Program in Human Gene Therapy, has been named chair of the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have uncovered the first genetic evidence that explains how large-scale alterations to body plans were accomplished during the early evolution of animals.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that the embryonic development of the first axis of an animal-which defines its inner and outer layers and is initiated by the entry of sperm into an egg-is intimately linked to a protein complex long known to be instrumental in cell division.
V. Ramanathan, professor of climate and atmospheric sciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, has been selected to receive the prestigious 2002 Carl-Gustaf Rossby Research Medal from the American Meteorological Society.
A scientist internationally recognized for her studies of climate change in Earth's history has been selected to receive the 2002 Robert L. and Bettie P. Cody Award in Ocean Sciences from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.
The University of California, San Diego is the recipient of a comprehensive $1.4M federal grant to improve academic achievement and increase the college-going rates of Pauma Elementary School and Valley Center High School students in northeast San Diego County.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have observed, for the first time, a protein gradient in developing fruit fly embryos believed to trigger the division of the embryo into nervous system and different types of epidermis within complex organisms like humans.
Three unusual patient cases of severe streptococcal (strep) infection have provided clues that allowed researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine to prove that a potent bacterial toxin plays an important role in producing necrotizing fasciitis, the rapid infection of soft tissue referred to as "flesh-eating disease".
Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that silicon wafers, the raw starting material for computer chips, can be easily made into tiny explosives that might be used one day to chemically analyze samples in the field or serve as power sources for tiny electronic sensors the size of a speck of dust.
A team of astronomers from the University of California, San Diego and two other institutions has made the first discovery of a planet orbiting a giant star, a find of special interest to astronomers because it provides insight into the fate of planets during the late life cycles of stars.
New findings by reserachers at UCSD School of Medicine offer insight into the role of a recently discovered protein in the development of elastic fibers, and the potential for future therapies to combat these and other aspects of aging.
A fast, sensitive laboratory test that measures the molecular components involved during the critical moment when HIV infects a normal cell has been developed by researchers in the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and VA San Diego Healthcare System.
Researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine, in conjunction with colleagues from Lund University in Sweden, have identified in the laboratory a promising new target for cancer chemotherapy that could impact tumor formation and metastasis by inhibiting cell growth.
Researchers in the UCSD Institue of Molecular Medicine have cloned and identified the role of a regulatory gene that in the presence of underlying heart failure, appears culpable in the occurrence of cardiac arrhythmias, or irregular heart beats, that can lead to sudden cardiac death.
Copies of the collected scientific papers of Nobelist Francis Crick, will be housed in the special collections section of the Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego.
According to a United Nations Population Fund report released Nov. 7, water use has grown six-fold over the past 70 years. "Water may be the resource that defines the limits of sustainable development," the report notes.
The findings are the first scientific data that describe the transport role of APP and that offer a new hypothesis linking the protein's cellular trafficking function to the formation of harmful plaque deposits in the brains of Alzheimer's victims.
The UC Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research has received DEA approval to begin 2 clinical studies on the possible efficacy of cannabis in the treatment of 2 severe medical disorders.
The unique dual-action role of a natural regulatory protein that controls cellular function has been described by researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine.
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have produced dramatic images of brain cells forming temporary and permanent connections in response to various stimuli, illustrating for the first time the structural changes between neurons in the brain that, many scientists have long believed, take place when we store short-term and long-term memories.
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering faculty are available to provide commentary on issues related to the recent crash of American Airlines Flight 587.
UCSD School of Medicine cardiologists, in conjunction with the Swiss Cardiovascular Center, have found that vitamins that cost only pennies prevent repeat blockage of the coronary artery after angioplasty.
Researchers have shown for the first time in living mammals that specific peptides with known anti-microbial properties, also act as natural antibiotics.
New cosmological simulations performed on a supercomputer have provided astrophysicists with the best indication to date of how the first star in the universe formed.
Researchers have shown in cell cultures and mice that certain nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) use a novel mechanism to decrease the harmful amyloid-beta 42 protein (AB42) that forms brain plaques, a hallmark condition in Alzheimer's disease patients.
In an effort to improve patient safety and reduce the occurrence and severity of medical errors through research and education, the San Diego Center for Patient Safety has been established as a collaborative effort between the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System and UCSD Health Sciences.
Researchers in San Diego and the United Kingdom have identified a protein segment and the mechanism that underlies excess fibrous tissue growth leading to conditions such as liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. In addition, they've developed a mutated version of the protein that blocks this excess scar tissue in mice.
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