Two teams of undergraduate students from the University of California, San Diego, have been selected to explore the unique world of weightlessness as part of a program developed by NASA and the Texas Space Grant Consortium.
The ability of the brain to function following sleep deprivation appears to vary with the task at hand, and in some cases the brain attempts to compensate for the adverse effects caused by lack of sleep, according to a team of researchers (Nature, 2-10-00).
A clinical service unit dedicated to alleviating cancer pain and related symptoms that affect quality of life such as nausea, fatigue, loss of sleep, and depression has been established by the UCSD Cancer Center.
The UCSD Regional Burn Center created the "Baby Be Safe Program" to reduce the number of burn injuries to children under the age of four by educating their parents.
Research scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, have identified salt marshes as a major natural source of the environmentally--and economically--important compound methyl bromide, they report in the Jan. 20 Nature
Patient trials of an experimental gene therapy for early stage Alzheimer's disease will move forward, following review by the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee (RAC). The first patients are to be treated in spring 2000.
A team led by scientists from UCSD has demonstrated the prevalence of cannabinoid receptors in the retina, indicating an important role for cannabinoids in retinal function and perhaps vision in general.
Sangeeta Bhatia, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego is among 24 of the nation's most promising young university researchers awarded the 1999 Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
"Plants and products usually not seen or available during the first 10 months of the year account for many problems during the holiday season," says the director of the California Poison Control System, UCSD Medical Center.
David Perlmutter, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, San Diego, has been elected president of the Linguistic Society of America.
Using ultrafast pulses of light and x-rays, an interdisciplinary group at the University of California, San Diego has directly observed the melting of material without taking the route of a typical melting process they report in the Nov. 12 issue of Science.
Herbert I. Schiller, professor emeritus and founder of the Communication Department at the University of California, San Diego, is the 1999 recipient of the Professional Freedom and Responsibility Award of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.
A new study by University of California, San Diego Psychologist Diana Deutsch, presented today at the annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Columbus, Ohio, suggests that perfect pitch may not be so rare.
Cardiac researchers at the UCSD School of Medicine have demonstrated in mice that the progression of heart failure can be completely arrested by inhibiting a single gene called phospholamban.
Rita Colwell, director of the National Science Foundation, will discuss "Expanding Frontiers of Knowledge" during an event sponsored by the San Diego Science and Technology Council and The Scripps Research Institute Society of Fellows.
Jazzing Up France: Music, Modernity, and Identity in the First Half of the 20th Century will be the topic of an Oct. 29 colloquium at the University of California, San Diego campus. The event, which will feature Denis-Constant Martin, will kick off a year-long Blues-and Border Music Series.
The NAPCRG conference will showcase ideas and strategies on improving care in a constantly changing environment, with primary care physicians playing an increasingly vital role in the delivery of health care.
An inherited genetic mutation appears to be connected with certain familial late onset colorectal cancer cases, according to findings published in the current issue of Cancer Research.
According to University of California, San Diego sociologist Rebecca Klatch, author of the new book "A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s," (1999, UC Press) the untold story of the '60s is about the New Right.
The staff at the California Poison Control System-San Diego Division, located at the UCSD Medical Center, offers this advice for parents to help them keep Halloween safe.
Presentations today of data from two separate trials described favorable clinical results with pleconaril, an investigational compound being developed for the treatment of patients with diseases caused by picornaviruses, including viral meningitis.
The University of California, San Diego has received a $2 million GEAR UP Award from the Federal Government to support partnerships with San Diego area high and middle schools aimed at motivating and preparing disadvantaged students for college.
Wealthy interest groups that funnel vast sums of money into political campaigns in the hopes of influencing the outcome of a ballot initiative are usually not successful, according to a professor of political science at the University of California, San Diego, who has completed the first systematic study of how money and interest groups actually affect the initiative process.
A study by researchers at the UCSD Cancer Center provides the first hard data on the number of young people who start smoking each day in the US, and the news is not good.
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have uncovered a genetic underpinning associated with a deadly strain of leukemia.
UCSD Healthcare announces the opening of a new family-centered birthing unit called The Birth Center where pregnant women are assisted by a Certified Nurse Midwife.
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, McMaster University and University of Graz have shed new light on one of the cornerstones of contemporary physics: finding ways to describe the fundamental mechanisms behind superconductivity in oxide superconductors, the materials that lose resistance to electricity at unusually high temperature.
Media and Communication in the New Global Economy will be the subject of a major conference Oct. 2-3 sponsored by the University of California, San Diego's Department of Communication.
Based on the predicted increase in the incidence of mental health disorders among aging "boomers," along with the sheer size of this group, the number of elderly mentally ill is projected to swell from about four million in 1970 to 15 million in 2030.
Researchers from University of California, San Diego and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified a process by which the normal primate brain degenerates with aging, and have also shown that this degeneration can be reversed by gene therapy.
UCSD Department of Reproductive Medicine recently received a $4 million National Institutes of Health grant to advance its research in women's reproductive health.
As the free-spirited "baby boomer" generation ages, the problem of substance abuse in the elderly is also likely to grow, according to a paper by UCSD School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System researchers
The W.M. Keck Foundation of Los Angeles has made two $1 million awards to the University of California, San Diego. One award will establish two state-of-the-art satellite sites in support of interdisciplinary biomedical research. A second $1 million award has been given to Partho Ghosh of UCSD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry under the Keck Foundation's new Distinguished Young Scholars in Medical Research program.
Students from ethnically diverse backgrounds in four states, including 1,379 San Diego students, are demonstrating that the diet and exercise principles they learned years before in an elementary school-based intervention program are still having postitive effects, according to a study led by UCSD researchers.
Computer science and engineering students at UC San Diego will study computer science, software engineering, multimedia Web design, and database design this Fall using a newly outfitted Microsoft Windows NT Laboratory.
A University of California, San Diego bioengineering professor and his research group are now outsmarting these bacteria and viruses using a new scientific concept called "genetic circuits"--computer simulations that describe how gene products interact to perform specific cellular functions.
A new study examining fluctuations in mortality has found that significantly more deaths occur in the U.S. during the first week of each month, and that this peak in deaths may be due to substance abuse by people who receive government support payments at the beginning of the month.
Coronary bypass patients who viewed videotapes showing what they could expect in the first few months following bypass surgery are more likely to follow the diet, exercise, and lifestyle guidelines recommended for satisfactory recovery.
Now researchers at the UCSD Cancer Center have discovered a fundamental basis for drug resistance, which they report in the June 24 issue of the journal NATURE. The team discovered a signaling pathway that is activated by the chemotherapy drug cisplatin. Drug resistance occurs when this pathway is defective.
Moving closer to dramatic improvements in finding natural, biochemical tools for environmental waste clean up, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered a gene that gives plants the powerful ability to detoxify heavy metals that are hazardous to human health and the environment.
New astronomical observations of extremely compact and dense neutron stars, sources of some of the most intense bursts of high-energy radiation in the Galaxy, call into question a popular theory about their fundamental composition.
Why is talk about TV superheroes forbidden at a Montessori school? Why would a mother feel guilty about watching Star Trek in front of her four-year old child? Why do girls often lose out to the their big brothers in the fight for time on the family computer?
Researchers with University of California, San Diego report success in using a new technology to develop a sustained-release formulation of the cancer drug cytarabine (ara-C). The new formulation, called DepoCyt, produced a significantly better response rate than standard ara-C in patients with lymphomatous meningitis.
The University of California, San Diego management team today won the Rochester Institute of Technology/USA TODAY Quality Cup award for its innovative approach to cutting costs, solving problems and increasing efficiency.
More than 3,500 University of California, San Diego students will receive their degrees during commencement ceremonies scheduled June 6, June 12 and June 13 on the La Jolla campus. For the third year in a row, an all-campus commencement will precede individual graduation rites held by the various UCSD colleges.
Researchers at UCSD School of Medicine have found that the drug flovoxamine improves symptoms of social phobia and improves paients' social, work and family life. Results of the study, which was carried out at UCSD and 3 other centers, are published in the May Issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.
UCSD School of Medicine researchers have been awarded a 5 year, $5.3 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to establish a Center for the Study of Reproductive Biology and Disease.
A new report in the April 27 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by evolutionary biologists at the University of California, San Diego shows that the history of humans is quite different from that of chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas and supports with genetics the controversial idea that humans have had at least one dramatic population reduction during the last million years.
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a key link in a chain of events that protect the heart from cell death, which leads to heart failure.
Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that an important enzyme previously thought to be associated only with inflammation is also a key factor in skin formation and in programmed cell death.
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