Heart muscle cells, shown here in a micrograph, utilize the careful release of calcium ions to contract. SMART, a new software package developed by researchers at UC San Diego, can make studying this ...

From left: Postdoc Brian Lee, Professor Truong Nguyen, Professor Nikolay Atanasov, Ph.D. student Runfa Li, Ph.D student Nikola Raicevic Dirty, dull and dangerous: these are the types of jobs most fit ...

Researchers have also found that blocking the protein reactivates immune cell function, restoring the effectiveness of vaccines in an animal model. “It is a pathogen in dire need of control because it ...

UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., will award the medals to Irwin Jacobs, recognizing his impact and that of his late wife, Joan The UC Presidential Medal, the University of California’s highest ...

For the third consecutive year, UC San Diego Health has been recognized as a High Performing Hospital for maternity care by U.S. News & World Report Approximately 5,000 babies are born at UC San Diego ...

Farinaz Koushanfar, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California San Diego, has been elected to the 2024 Class of Fellows of the National ...

‘Tis the season for spending for many. An estimated 197 million people shopped from Black Friday to Cyber Monday, according to the National Retailer Federation. On Black Friday alone, consumers spent ...

Program led by UC San Diego evolves into the StartBlue Ocean Enterprise Accelerator to generate economic growth in the blue economy FjordPhyto's team (Scripps PhD candidate Allison Cusick and Scripps ...

University of California San Diego School of Biological Sciences Professors Kimberly Cooper and Elizabeth Villa have been selected by the Pew Charitable Trusts as members of its 2024 class of ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that in 2023 a staggering 40,990 people died from motor vehicle crashes in the United States, reflecting some of the highest ...

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