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.
Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have produced evidence that bacteria living inside a small marine animal may be the source of a new drug compound being developed to fight cancer.
UCSD's Huntington's Disease Clinic is one of the first centers west of the Mississippi with this designation. Huntington's disease has been diagnosed in 30,000 Americans; with another 150,000 at risk with a 50% chance of inheriting from an infected parent.
The University of California Board of Regents approved plans for a new graduate school of management at the UC San Diego campus, which is expected to open its doors to its first class of students in September 2003.
Two UCSD School of Medicine faculty are among 60 individuals elected to membership in the prestigious Institute of Medicine, which is part of the National Academy of Sciences. The announcement was made at the Institute's annual meeting in Washington, D.C.
The National Center for Research Resources, a component of the National Institutes for Health, has awarded more than $20M to a consortium of universities coordinated by UCSD to build the first-nationwide high-performance computer environment to study diseases of the brain.
New research presents evidence that waves in the North Pacific Ocean--particularly in southern California--have increased substantially in size and intensity over the past half century as a result of stronger wind and storm activity.
The 26th Annual Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, co-sponsored by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction, is expected to draw more than 200 international scientists, according to the event coordinator, director of the Experimental Climate Prediction Center at Scripps.
University of California, San Diego bioengineers have fabricated cartilage tissue which for the first time mimics the multi-layered structure and cellular functions of natural articular cartilage.
A first-of-its-kind oral drug has been shown to successfully treat primary pulmonary hypertension, according to the results of a multi-center trial led by UCSD School of Medicine pulmonary specialists.
Welcome to the bottom of the deep-sea food chain. The rock bottom, that is. In the current edition of Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, a team of researchers uncovers and characterizes a process that is commonplace below the ocean bottom.
The volatile debate over research with human embryonic stem cells and the politics and science that surround it will be discussed by UCSD and Salk Institute researchers at a free lecture for the public October 19th on the UCSD campus in La Jolla.
The proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease interact to enhance each other's distinct degenerative effects, indicating that therapies blocking the production or accumulation of either protein may have broader benefits than previously thought.
The NIA has awarded $54M to a national consortium of centers working together on research to improve treatments and assessment tools for the memory-robbing affliction that affects as many as four million Americans.
UC San Diego faculty members are available to provide commentary to members of the news media on a broad range of issues related to the recent terrorist events in New York, Washington, and Pennsylvania. The following experts have expertise ranging from international politics and economics to structural engineering and chemistry.
UC San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering is launching a new center to foster commercialization of UCSD research, and to educate students about the process of moving innovations from the laboratory into the marketplace. The William J. von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology Advancement is funded through a $10 million gift from the William J. von Liebig Foundation of Naples, Fla.
This is among the nation's first federally-funded studies in the emerging field of individualized medicine or "pharmacogenomics," with therapy tailored to a person's own genetic profile.
California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology has signed a new industrial partner: SGI Inc. (NYSE:SGI), formerly known as Silicon Graphics
Walter Munk, considered by many to be one of the world's greatest living oceanographers, will be awarded the inaugural Prince Albert I Medal from the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO).
A team of UCSD scientists have discovered a new immunological pathway that opens a new avenue of research, with the potential for preventing autoimmune diseases and some lymphomas, without compromising the body's immune defenses.
A unique array of listening devices deployed by researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, is one of the first stations in an important new global network that will detect signals from events as diverse as secret nuclear weapons tests, volcanic eruptions, and hurricanes in early formation.
Palomar Observatory receives high-speed network connectivity via HPWREN: near-earth asteroid and supernova researchers reap benefits.
The Center for Wireless Communications at the University of California, San Diego, has been awarded $1.5 million in matching funds from the State of California.
New research based upon NASA satellite data and a multi-national field experiment shows that black carbon aerosol pollution produced by humans can impact global climate as well as seasonal cycles of rainfall.
The National Science Foundation has awarded $53M to four U.S. research institutions, NCSA, SDSC, Argonne, and Caltech, to build and deploy a distributed terascale facility.
Like a field of sunflowers nodding toward the sun, photoreceptors - the light-sensitive cells in the retina of the eye - can apparently swiftly reorient themselves towards the brightest points of light after cataract surgery.
Using a combination of field samples from the Norwegian Sea and a new method for analyzing sea life populations, researchers have shown that tiny marine crustaceans called copepods use cannibalism as a mechanism to limit their population.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered the genetic and molecular means by which roundworms, and probably insects, can develop resistance to the most widely used biologically produced insecticide-crystalline toxins from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, or Bt.
The National Cancer Institute has designated UCSD Cancer Center as a Comprehensive Cancer Center, the highest ranking awarded to cancer centers by the federal government, U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced via a live video satellite link from the nation's capitol.
Effective August 1, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology launches a new website to facilitate media access and highlight up-to-date news and information about cutting-edge research projects now underway at the institute and its affiliated partners.
Six months after its creation, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology is on firm financial footing. Gov. Gray Davis signed into law the 2001/02 state budget including $25M in capital funds for Cal-(IT)2, the second of four annual installments.
The California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, a partnership between UC San Diego and UC Irvine, has signed up a new industrial partner: Enosys Markets, a San Diego-based software firm.
Using statistical methods developed in climate forecasting research, scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have constructed the first comprehensive forecast for wildfires in the western United States.
The body's natural reponse to a wound--sending specialized cells to the transplant site to initiate the development of scar tissue--might be a major contributor to chronic kidney rejection following transplant.
Daniel Masys, M.D., UCSD associate clinical professor of medicine and director of Biomedical Informatics, has been appointed to the national Board on Health Sciences Policy of the prestigious Institute of Medicine (ION).
The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research has awarded one of its first-ever grant to UCSD for studies of a naturally occurring protein that has potential as a new Parkinson's disease therapy.
Physicians and leadership of the University of California, San Diego; Children's Hospital and Health Center, and Children's Specialists of San Diego will formally unify pediatric patient care, research, education and community service programs, creating a university-affiliated children's health system to serve the region.
Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have identified genes in the common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, that appear to be counterparts of genes responsible for more than 700 different genetic diseases in humans.
Using sophisticated post-genomic technology, a team of UCSD researchers has looked deep within the body's immune cells and recorded the molecular events triggered by invasion of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), creating a detailed account of the devastating progression of cellular injury folloiwng HIV infection.
Coral extracted from a remote central Pacific island has helped scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, construct a valuable new record of climate conditions during the 20th century.
Three scientists and a diving officer with Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, recently received distinguished honors from a variety of organizations.
Chemists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a silicon polymer "nanowire," some 2,000 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair, that is capable of detecting trace amounts of TNT and picric acid, an explosive commonly used in terrorist bombs.
A study of climate-induced evolutionary change in a California intertidal snail suggests that resource managers shouldn't focus exclusively on genetic diversity when developing conservation plans for protecting endangered or threatened species.
Born out of the need to adapt software developed for traditional computing applications into the underwater environment, the "marine mouse" allows a diver to point and click on objects that are displayed on an underwater computer screen.
A clinical oncologist with UCSD Cancer Center, Kenneth D. Herbst, M.D., has been named as the new Deputy Surgeon General for the U.S. Army Reserve. This is the highest-ranking position in the Medical Corps Reserve, and the holder reports directly to the Surgeon General of the Army.
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