Christine Clark | UC San Diego | July 13, 2021 Excess urban heat is common within cities, but not all communities burden the consequences equally, according to new UC San Diego research Low-income neighborhoods and communities with higher Black, Hispanic and Asian populations experience significantly more urban heat than wealthier and predominantly white neighborhoods ... Continue Reading »
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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 »
Soft Skin Patch Could Provide Early Warning for Strokes, Heart Attacks
Liezel Labios | UC San Diego | July 22, 2021 Engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a soft and stretchy ultrasound patch that can be worn on the skin to monitor blood flow through major arteries and veins deep inside a person’s body. Knowing how fast and how much blood flows through a patient’s blood vessels is important because it can help ... Continue Reading »
If Countries Implement Paris Pledges with Cuts to Aerosols, Millions of Lives can be Saved
By: Christine Clark, UC San Diego | June 1, 2021 Aerosol reductions that would take place as countries meet climate goals could contribute to global cooling and prevent more than one million annual premature deaths over a decade, according to a new study from the University of California San Diego. The landmark Paris Agreement of 2016 does not address emissions ... Continue Reading »
Three-layered masks most effective against large respiratory droplets
Katherine Connor, UC San Diego | March 5, 2021 If you are going to buy a face mask to protect yourself and others from COVID-19, make sure it’s a three-layered mask. You might have already heard this recommendation, but researchers have now found an additional reason why three-layered masks are safer than single or double-layered alternatives. While this advice was ... Continue Reading »
Fine particulate matter from wildfire smoke more harmful than pollution from other sources
By Robert Monroe, UC San Diego | March 5, 2021 Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego examining 14 years of hospital admissions data conclude that the fine particles in wildfire smoke can be several times more harmful to human respiratory health than particulate matter from other sources such as car exhaust. While this distinction has been ... Continue Reading »
Sewage-handling robots help predict COVID-19 outbreaks
By Heather Buschman, UC San Diego | March 3, 2021 In earlier days of the COVID-19 pandemic, before diagnostic testing was widely available, it was difficult for public health officials to keep track of the infection’s spread, or predict where outbreaks were likely to occur. Attempts to get ahead of the virus are still complicated by the fact that people can be infected and ... Continue Reading »
Novel drug prevents amyloid plaques, a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease
By Scott LaFee, UC San Diego | March 2, 2021 Amyloid plaques are pathological hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) — clumps of misfolded proteins that accumulate in the brain, disrupting and killing neurons and resulting in the progressive cognitive impairment that is characteristic of the widespread neurological disorder. In a new study, published March 2, 2021 in ... Continue Reading »
Poorer mental health smolders after deadly, devastating wildfire
By Scott LaFee, UC San Diego | February 09, 2021 In 2018, a faulty electric transmission line ignited the Camp Fire in Northern California, ultimately consuming 239 square miles and several communities, including the town of Paradise, which was 95 percent destroyed. At least 85 people died. Structures have been rebuilt, but some things are worse. In a paper published ... Continue Reading »
Computer analyses of cough sounds reveal infection by COVID
By Doug Ramsey, Jacobs School of Engineering, UC San Diego | February 5, 2021 Millions of people already use Fitbit and other devices to monitor and track a variety of personal health metrics. Now, a researcher at the University of California San Diego has published data indicating that analyzing voice signals can detect COVID-19 infection when compared with sample audio ... Continue Reading »