By: Emerson Dawson | UC San Diego | January 13, 2022 When governments are neither clearly democratic nor authoritarian, once-dominant groups lose political status, and politicians emerge to exploit their resentment, the risks of civil war increase. That’s the premise of “How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them,” a timely new book from Barbara F. Walter, the ... Continue Reading »
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Biologists Pinpoint Key Factor in Immune System Response to Viral Infection
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 »
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 »
Survey Finds Bipartisan Support for Major Reform to California’s Recall Process
By: Inga Kiderra | UC San Diego | September 23, 2021 Pundits around the nation have been calling for overhaul of the century-old rules that govern California’s recall elections, since even before the petition to remove Gov. Gavin Newsom reached the ballot box. Political leaders are now pushing ahead. But what do ordinary voters think and want? A survey conducted by the ... Continue Reading »
UC San Diego Study: E-cigarettes Don’t Help Smokers Stay Off Cigarettes
By: Yadira Galindo | UC San Diego | October 19, 2021 The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have suggested that smokers who are unable to quit smoking may benefit by switching from smoking cigarettes to vaping e-cigarettes if they switch completely and are able to avoid relapsing to cigarette smoking. However, there have been few studies on whether ... 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 »
Looking Beyond DNA to See Cancer with New Clarity
By: Heather Buschman, PhD | UC San Diego | September 30, 2021 Researchers at University of California San Diego and University of California San Francisco have mapped out how hundreds of mutations involved in two types of cancer affect the activity of discrete groups of proteins that are the ultimate actors behind the disease. The work points the way to identifying new ... Continue Reading »
UC SAN DIEGO WORKS TO MITIGATE POSSIBLE OIL IMPACTS FROM SPILL OFF HUNTINGTON BEACH
By: Chase Martin | UC San Diego | October 15, 2021 University of California San Diego is safeguarding essential campus operations and assisting federal and state agencies in the event leaked oil from a broken pipeline off the coast of Orange County moves south.Safety officials and oceanographers are working to mitigate impacts on facilities at Scripps Institution of ... Continue Reading »
How to Double Voter Turnout and Increase Representation during Local Elections
Shifting off-cycle elections to on-cycle races has dramatic effects on the turnout and demographics of voters making their voices heard, new UC San Diego research shows By: Christine Clark | UC San Diego | August 20, 2021 Low and uneven turnout is a serious problem for local democracy. However, simply moving off-cycle, local elections to be held on the same day as ... Continue Reading »