A Sampling of Clips for January 9^th, 2009

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More Names Mentioned for NASA Post
MSNBC, Jan. 9 -- Despite a last-ditch campaign by some supporters to keep NASA Administrator Mike Griffin on the job, the transition team of President-elect Barack Obama is now vetting a handful of replacement candidates, among them scientist Charles Kennel, who previously ran the agency's Earth science division, according to sources familiar with the situation. Kennel is a former NASA associate administrator for Earth science and a recent director of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD. More

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Blue Dog Democrats Barter for Tighter Spending Limits
USA Today, Jan. 9 -- As Congress prepares to borrow and spend billions of dollars to revive the economy, a growing group of conservative House Democrats is angling for long-term changes to reduce the federal government's soaring budget deficit. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Gary Jacobson) More

Doctors Urged to Screen Diabetics for Sleep Apnea
CBC News, Canada, Jan. 9 - Here's a wake-up call to the millions of American men and women with type 2 diabetes: Snoring at night or nodding off during the day may be symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, a potentially life-threatening problem affecting one out of three diabetics. (Quotes Dr. Daniel Einhorn, clinical professor of medicine at UCSD) More

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Whole Genome Study Reveals Clues
to Solving Mystery Behind Kawasaki Disease
Xinhua, Jan. 8 -- Research teams from the University of Western Australia, the Genome Institute of Singapore, Emma Children's Hospital in the Netherlands, Imperial College London in Britain and UCSD in the United States studied naturally occurring genetic variation in almost 900 cases of Kawasaki disease in their countries, the first genetic study of an infectious disease to examine the whole genome rather than selected genes. More

Princeton Review Gives Thumbs Up to UCSD
San Diego 6, Jan. 8 -- The Princeton Review ranked UCSD among the nation's top 10 "best value" public colleges for 2009, university officials announced Thursday. More

Self-Replicating Chemicals Evolve Into Lifelike Ecosystem
Wired News, Jan. 9 -- Life makes more of itself. And now so can a set of custom-designed chemicals. Chemists have shown that a group of synthetic enzymes replicated, competed and evolved much like a natural ecosystem, but without life or cells. (Quotes Jeffrey Bada, a chemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who was not involved with the work) More

Stem Cell Research Lab OK’d
San Diego Business Journal, Jan. 9 -- The California Coastal Commission issued final approvals last week to build a $115 million, four-story stem cell research lab on Torrey Pines Mesa in La Jolla. A permit from the commission will allow the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine — a group made up of the Burnham Institute for Medical Research, UCSD, Salk Institute and The Scripps Research Institute — to move forward with plans to build a 135,000-square-foot facility on North Torrey Pines Road. More

Group Pushing for Center to Research Algae-Based Fuels
San Diego Business Journal, Jan. 9 -- A consortium of academic researchers is pushing to make San Diego a hub for research on algae-based fuels, a task that, if successful, could pour more jobs and funding into the area. The multimillion-dollar facility that would combine academic research teams from Scripps’ research institute, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCSD. More

UCSD Pays Tribute to Darwin, Lincoln
Del Mar Times, Jan 8 -- UCSD is continuing its series of events to celebrate the 200th birthdays of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, who were both born on Feb. 12. Undergraduates are being challenged to a contest to show their creative side of "Why Darwin Matters," and various campus events are focusing on both the two men's role in the history of ideas. More

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