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 »
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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 »
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 »