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AI-POWERED PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION SYSTEM HELPS LOWER BLOOD PRESSURE
By: Katherine Connor | November 15, 2021 | UC San Diego Clinical trial data show tailored recommendations improve health outcomes November 15, 2021--Engineers at UC San Diego have developed an artificial intelligence platform that fuses data from disparate health and lifestyle sensors, wearables and apps into one site, using this combined data stream to paint a ... Continue Reading »
UC San Diego Data Science Undergrads Help Keep K-12 Students COVID-Safe
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
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
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
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
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 »
Graphic Warning Labels on Cigarette Packaging Changes Perceptions
Smokers in a randomized clinical trial were more likely to recognize the negative consequences of tobacco and consider quitting By: Tadira Galindo | UC San Diego | August 4, 2021 Purchase a pack of cigarettes in Australia and be prepared to be accosted with graphic warning labels depicting the dangers of tobacco use — including images of gangrene of the foot, a newborn ... Continue Reading »
Rethinking Remdesivir
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 »
3D “Assembloid” Shows How SARS-CoV-2 Infects Brain Cells
Scott LaFee | UC San Diego | July 16, 2021 Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine have produced a stem cell model that demonstrates a potential route of entry of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, into the human brain. The findings are published in the July 9, 2021 online issue ... Continue Reading »