A Sampling of Clips for March 23, 2010

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Not-so-sleepless in Seattle, or Anywhere Else
USA Today, March 23 -- Figuring out how many hours people sleep is more difficult than it sounds. You can ask. That's what some polls do, but research finds that people have trouble estimating how much time we devote to anything from paying bills to washing dishes. (Quotes Daniel Kripke, a psychiatrist and professor emeritus at UC San Diego) More

Using Green Algae as Drug Factory Could Cut Pharma Costs by 1,000 Times
Popular Science, March 17 -- Algae has helped create the atmosphere, played a role in populating the oceans and even produced biofuels so that we might pollute the atmosphere and the oceans a tiny bit less. Now, a team of researchers at UC San Diego is coaxing therapeutic pharmaceuticals out of the hardy little organisms, in a process that could eventually produce biologic drugs that are a few orders of magnitude cheaper than existing drugs. More

Cell Division in Bacteria Just Like Clockwork
ANI, India, March 19 -- A new American study has found that cell division in cyanobacteria is controlled by same kind of circadian rhythms that govern human sleep.The research conducted by scientists at MIT and UC San Diego has appeared in the March 18 online edition of Science. More

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Kamansky Never Planned On Coaching, But He's Glad He Did
San Bernardino County Sun, March 22 -- Greg Kamansky always thought he wanted to be school or athletic administrator, with no thought given to coaching. That all changed, however, following a year of coaching a below-average ninth-grade team at Francis Parker High School in San Diego. Kamansky had recently finished one degree at UC San Diego and was in graduate school at San Diego State. He took the coaching gig just to make some money to pay for school, but it ended up changing his career path forever. More

Scripps Team to Finish Chile Quake Mapping
San Diego Union-Tribune, March 23 — Scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography plan to complete an earthquake-related voyage along the coast of Chile tomorrow. The researchers, whose employer is part of UC San Diego, have spent the past week exploring the rupture site of a magnitude 8.8 temblor that struck in late February. More

Sleep Problems Lead to Drug Use in Teens
KPBS, March 22 — Some San Diego researchers have found poor sleep to be contagious among teens, and it very often leads to drug use. The link between drug abuse and poor sleep patterns is well known, but a team, led by UC San Diego psychiatrist Sara Mednick, wanted to learn what came first. After examining a database of more than 8,000 teenagers, researchers determined that poor sleep led to drug use, not the other way around. More

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