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Biologists Pinpoint Key Factor in Immune System Response to Viral Infection

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By: Mario Aguilera | UC San Diego | January 13, 2022 The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the urgency for science to continue unraveling how viruses infect and how immune systems respond to such threats. University of California San Diego researchers studying how small worms defend themselves against pathogens have discovered a gene that acts as a cell’s first-line ... Continue Reading »

UC San Diego Data Science Undergrads Help Keep K-12 Students COVID-Safe

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By: Kimberly Mann Bruch | UC San Diego | December 9, 2021 SDSC researcher leads e-Decision Tree efforts used for classrooms and school buses Since the start of the pandemic, a group of UC San Diego researchers have been meeting weekly with epidemiologists at the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) to discuss COVID-19 dynamics, analyze populations ... Continue Reading »

How Adolescents Used Drugs During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Alcohol use declined, but use of nicotine and misuse of prescription drugs rose By: Scott LaFee | UC San Diego | August 24, 2021 The advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in earnest in the United States in early 2020, affected different demographic groups in different ways. According to a new study, among adolescents ages 10 to 14 in the U.S., the overall rate of ... Continue Reading »

It’s Not Just SARS-CoV-2: Most Respiratory Viruses Spread by Aerosols

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By: Robert Monroe | UC San Diego | September 8, 2021 Conventional wisdom on viral disease transmission needs revision, international science team finds SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind today’s global coronavirus pandemic, spreads primarily by inhalation of virus-laden aerosols at both short and long ranges—and a comprehensive new assessment of respiratory viruses finds that ... Continue Reading »

Rethinking Remdesivir

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Researchers modify current drug, creating oral version that can be taken earlier in COVID-19 diagnoses; in cell and animal studies, revised drug proved effective and safe By: Scott LaFee | UC San Diego | August 2, 2021 Remdesivir is an antiviral drug originally discovered as part of a program to develop antiviral agents with activity against novel emerging viruses. In the ... Continue Reading »

COVID-19 isolation linked to increased domestic violence

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By Karen Nikos-Rose, UC Davis | February 24, 2021 While COVID-19-related lockdowns may have decreased the spread of a deadly virus, they appear to have created an ideal environment for increased domestic violence. Extra stress in the COVID-19 pandemic caused by income loss, and lack of ability to pay for housing and food has exacerbated the often silent epidemic of intimate ... Continue Reading »

Understanding the evolution of SARS and COVID-19 type viruses

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By Andy Fell, UC Davis | February 24, 2021 As COVID-19 sweeps the world, related viruses quietly circulate among wild animals. A new study shows how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and SARS-CoV-1, which caused the 2003 SARS outbreak, are related to each other. The work, published recently in the journal Virus Evolution, helps scientists better understand the ... Continue Reading »

A mass exodus from California? Not exactly

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By Sean Coffey, UC Berkeley | March 4, 2021 New research released today by the UC Berkeley California Policy Lab finds that, contrary to some news media reports suggesting a mass exodus from California, most moves in 2020 happened within the state. Exits from California in 2020 largely mirrored historical patterns, while the biggest change was a decrease in people ... Continue Reading »