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Scientists at UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara and MIT have developed nanometer-sized “nanoworms” that can cruise through the bloodstream without significant interference from the body’s immune defense system and—like tiny anti-cancer missiles—home in on tumors.
In a major boost to important research into gastrointestinal disease being conducted at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, a $2.5 million basic research core grant to establish a Digestive Diseases Research Development Center (DDRDC) has been awarded to UC San Diego’s Division of Gastroenterology. The grant, funded by The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is the first-ever NIH Center award for the division, adding them to the ranks of only 19 other NIH-funded digestive disease centers in the United States.
An international team of physical oceanographers including a researcher from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has discovered that oxygen-poor regions of tropical oceans are expanding as the oceans warm, limiting the areas in which predatory fishes and other marine organisms can live or enter in search of food.
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Scripps researcher receives $2 million in funding