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UCLA awarded $11.5 million to improve organ, hand and face transplantation

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By: UCLA Health | UC Los Angeles | July 27, 2022 The Dumont–UCLA Transplant Center has received two grants totaling $11.5 million from the federal government for research aimed at making donated organs last longer and helping transplant recipients live longer, healthier lives. The grant projects — one funded by the National Institutes of Health and the other by the ... Continue Reading »

Nearly 400,000 Californians May Lack Access to Safe Drinking Water, Study Finds

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By: Brad Smith | UC Los Angeles | January 11, 2022 An estimated 370,000 Californians rely on drinking water that may contain high levels of the chemical contaminants arsenic, nitrate or hexavalent chromium, and contaminated drinking water disproportionately impacts communities of color in the state, finds a new analysis led by researchers at the University of California, ... 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 »

Cat Bacteria Treats Mouse Skin Infection, May Help You and Your Pets As Well

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By: Nicole Mlynaryk, Bigelow Science Communication Fellow | UC San Diego | October 19, 2021 Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine used bacteria found on healthy cats to successfully treat a skin infection on mice. These bacteria may serve as the basis for new therapeutics against severe skin infections in humans, dogs and cats. The study, ... Continue Reading »

Fire and the foothills: reducing wildfire threats while boosting biodiversity

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By: Kathleen Wong | | UC Natural Reserve System | September 2, 2021 The foothills of California are familiar to anyone who has ventured into county parks to hike: iconic oak savannas, chaparral-covered hillslopes, and grasslands. They encircle the Central Valley like a bathtub ring, and include much of the Coast and Transverse ranges. Ranging from a few hundred to a few ... Continue Reading »

UC San Diego Researchers Discover Key Mechanisms behind Synapse Degeneration in Alzheimer’s Brain

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Targeting newly identified signaling pathway holds promise for treatments of neurodegenerative disorders By: Mario Aguilera | UC San Diego | August 18, 2021 Healthy adult brains are endowed with a vast number of synapses, structures that relay signals across nerve cells to enable communications, information processing and storage throughout the nervous system. Apart from ... Continue Reading »

Ultrasound Remotely Triggers Immune Cells to Attack Tumors in Mice Without Toxic Side Effects

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By: Liezel Labios | UC San Diego | August 12, 2021 Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a cancer immunotherapy that pairs ultrasound with cancer-killing immune cells to destroy malignant tumors while sparing normal tissue. The new experimental therapy significantly slowed down the growth of solid cancerous tumors in mice. The team, led ... Continue Reading »