CRISPR-based Technology Targets Global Crop Pest
UC San Diego scientists have developed a technology that uses CRISPR genetic editing in Drosophila suzukii, the invasive fruit fly responsible for millions of dollars in fruit crop damage.
15-Aug-2022 6:05 PM EDT
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A new neuromorphic chip for AI on the edge, at a small fraction of the energy and size of today’s compute platforms
An international team of researchers has designed and built a chip that runs computations directly in memory and can run a wide variety of AI applications–all at a fraction of the energy consumed by computing platforms for general-purpose AI...
16-Aug-2022 6:05 PM EDT
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UC San Diego Receives $1.3M from W. M. Keck Foundation to Study Origins of Dementia
UC San Diego researchers received a $1.3 million grant from the Keck Foundation for a project that could help scientists better understand the role misfolded tau proteins play in causing neurodegenerative diseases like dementia, which may lead to...
16-Aug-2022 6:05 PM EDT
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UC San Diego Named 5th Best Public University by Academic Ranking of World Universities
The University of California San Diego has been ranked 5th among the nation’s best public universities for its award-winning faculty and alumni, academic performance and impactful research. The new 2022 Academic Ranking of World Universities...
15-Aug-2022 2:05 PM EDT
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Giant Viruses Build a Cell Nucleus Surprisingly Like Our Own
Scientists are using new technologies to obtain unprecedented looks inside viruses and their unique abilities to infect and destroy bacteria. Using cryo-EM and other technologies, they found that jumbo phage cells feature a compartment that is...
3-Aug-2022 2:30 PM EDT
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Health Risks of COVID-19 Spurred More Smokers to Quit
Being a smoker makes it more likely for a person to have severe COVID-19 symptoms, require hospitalization or die, which may explain a sharp decrease in smoking behavior among the Danish population during the pandemic, according to new research.
2-Aug-2022 2:45 PM EDT
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Successful Women Make the Best Advocates to Help other Women Rise up in the Ranks
New research utilizing data from U.S. Supreme Court law clerk hiring decisions finds that female job applicants with recommendations from other, highly tenured women have the strongest chance of getting a job offer.
1-Aug-2022 3:05 PM EDT
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New $10M NSF-Funded Institute Will Get to the CORE of Data Science
A new National Science Foundation initiative has created a $10 million dollar institute led by computer and data scientists at University of California San DIego that aims to transform the core fundamentals of the rapidly emerging field of Data...
28-Jul-2022 8:05 PM EDT
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Your Questions, Answered: Examining Mistrust and Vaccines
On Feb. 22, the University of California San Diego brought together a panel of industry experts and esteemed faculty to kick off the university’s “Evenings of Nonconventional Wisdom” online event series hosted in celebration of the...
19-Mar-2021 5:20 PM EDT
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Expert source: Proximity detection in contact tracing
5-Aug-2020 3:25 PM EDT
Does Remote Instruction Make Cheating Easier?
Today, colleges across the nation are making critical decisions for the coming academic year. For some, all courses will be online; for others, the decision may be to have some classes offered in person, and the rest conducted in remote or hybrid...
14-Jul-2020 7:35 PM EDT
Understanding the ethics of genetic engineering – let our experts at UC San Diego explain
7-Jun-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Scripps Oceanographer Lynne Talley Available to Comment on the Topic of Atlantic Ocean Circulation
11-Apr-2018 5:05 PM EDT
Northern CA Wildfires Generate 1.5 Million Views of UC San Diego’s ‘Firemap’ Resource
A web-based tool recently developed by UC San Diego researchers under an NSF grant to perform data-driven predictive modeling and real-time tracking of fires has already been viewed about one million times and generated more than 115,000 unique...
13-Oct-2017 4:05 PM EDT
UC San Diego Scientists Garner National High-Risk, High-Reward Awards
Emma Farley, an assistant professor at UC San Diego’s Division of Biological Sciences and School of Medicine, has been awarded the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. Melissa Gymrek, an assistant professor in the School of Medicine and...
5-Oct-2017 1:05 PM EDT