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Study Identifies Protein Essential for Normal Heart Function

A study by researchers at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego, shows that a protein called MCL-1, which promotes cell survival, is essential for normal heart function.

June 17, 2013General, Health, Science and Engineering

SDSC’s Gordon Supercomputer: Parsing Genes, Proteins, and Big Bio Data

Gordon, the newest high-performance supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of San Diego, California, has proven to be a boon to biologists interested in rapidly sifting through an ever-expanding amount of data.

June 17, 2013General, Science and Engineering, SDSC

UC San Diego Black Resource Center Welcomes Inaugural Director

The newly established Black Resource Center at UC San Diego has appointed Stacia Smith Solomon to serve as the center’s inaugural director, providing resources and support to historically underrepresented students on campus.

June 14, 2013Awards, General

Developmental Protein Plays Role in Spread of Cancer

A protein used by embryo cells during early development, and recently found in many different types of cancer, apparently serves as a switch regulating the spread of cancer, known as metastasis, report researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center in the June 15, 2013 issue of the journal Cancer Research.

June 14, 2013General, Health, Science and Engineering

Gordon Scholars Learn from Experience

Integrity. Honesty. Teamwork. And smartphones. These are a few of the essential leadership tools engineering students and young engineering professionals need to become successful entrepreneurs in the new economy, said Ronald Reedy, co-founder of Peregrine Semiconductor at a recent Gordon Engineering Leadership forum for students, staff and alumni of the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

June 12, 2013Awards, General, Science and Engineering, Students

Positive Peer Pressure More Effective Than Cash Incentives, Study Finds

Appealing to people’s desire for a good reputation is more effective than cold, hard cash, researchers at Harvard, Yale, the Federal Trade Commission and the University of California, San Diego, found in a study published June 18 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

June 11, 2013General, Science and Engineering

Pilot Program Using Telemedicine to Decrease Emergency Room Wait Times

Emergency department (ED) overcrowding has been a major issue nationally for 20 years and continues to increase in severity.  To address this issue, a pilot study has been launched at UC San Diego Health System’s ED to use telemedicine as a way to help address crowding and decrease patient wait times.  The study is the first of its kind in California to use cameras to bring on-call doctors who are outside of the hospital to the patient in need.

June 11, 2013General, Health, Science and Engineering

UC San Diego Launches New Research Computing Program

The University of California, San Diego has deployed a new high-performance research computing system called the Triton Shared Computing Cluster, or TSCC, serving researchers at UC San Diego and any of the other UC campuses as well as external academic, non-profit, and corporate users.

June 10, 2013General, Science and Engineering, SDSC

Herpes Virus Exploits Immune Response to Bolster Infection

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and colleagues report that the herpes simplex virus type-1 (HSV-1), which affects an estimated 50 to 80 percent of all American adults, exploits an immune system receptor to boost its infectivity and ability to cause disease.

June 06, 2013General, Health, Science and Engineering

SDSC’s Gordon: A Non-Conventional Supercomputer Fosters Non-Traditional Research Projects

When the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of San Diego, California, debuted Gordon early last year, the system’s architects envisioned that its innovative features – such as the first large-scale deployment of flash storage (300 terabytes) in a high-performance computer – would open the door to new areas of research.

June 05, 2013General, Science and Engineering

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