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Plant Biologists From Across Country to Converge in San Diego to Discuss Future of Food, Fuel

Events, Science and Engineering

Study Shows Experiments Underestimate Plant Responses to Climate Change

This spring’s warmer than normal temperatures brought early blooming throughout much of the Eastern United States. Biologists discovered in a new study that plant warming experiments may dramatically underestimate how plants respond to future increases in temperatures from global warming.

May 02, 2012Science and Engineering

Three Professors at UC San Diego Elected to National Academy of Sciences

The National Academy of Sciences today elected three professors at the University of California, San Diego to membership in the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors bestowed on U.S. scientists and engineers.

May 01, 2012Awards, Science and Engineering

Studies Reveal How Cells Distinguish Between Disease-Causing and Innocuous Invaders

A study conducted on roundworms by biologists at UC San Diego has uncovered some important clues to answering the question of how humans and other animals are able to discriminate between disease-causing microbes and innocuous ones to rapidly respond to infections.

April 12, 2012Science and Engineering

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