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 »
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This Technology Could Bring the Fastest Version of 5G to Your Home and Workplace
UC San Diego engineers developed a system that enables millimeter wave signals to overcome blockages while providing high throughput By: Liezel Labios | UC San Diego | August 23, 2021 Consumers of today’s 5G cellphones may have experienced one of the following tradeoffs: impressive download speeds with extremely limited and spotty coverage, or widespread and reliable ... Continue Reading »
UC San Diego Partners with County on Framework to Guide Decarbonization of Regional Economy
Effort is first county approach in nation By: Donna Durckel and Christine Clark | UC San Diego | September 8, 2021 The County of San Diego announced the development of a science-based approach to decarbonizing the region’s economy called the Regional Decarbonization Framework ... Continue Reading »
How Adolescents Used Drugs During the COVID-19 Pandemic
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 »
New Technology Designed to Genetically Control Disease-spreading Mosquitoes
CRISPR-based system developed to safely restrain mosquito vectors via sterilization By: Mario Aguilera | UC San Diego | September 10, 2021 Leveraging advancements in CRISPR-based genetic engineering, researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a new system that restrains populations of mosquitoes that infect millions each year with debilitating ... Continue Reading »
It’s Not Just SARS-CoV-2: Most Respiratory Viruses Spread by Aerosols
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 »
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 »