A Sampling of Clips for November 4^th, 2008

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Depression Alters How We Handle Pain
Scientific American, Nov. 4 -- Scientists have found clues in the brains of people with major depression that might help explain why so many depressed people also battle chronic pain, a UCSD study published on Monday says. More

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Electronics Industry Changes the Climate with New Greenhouse Gas
Scientific American, Nov. 4 -- Emissions of a greenhouse gas that has 17,000 times the planet-warming capacity of carbon dioxide are at least four times higher than had been previously estimated, according to a study by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. More
 
Running In Place: The Predictable Election
The Washington Post, Nov. 4 -- Election Day at last -- the never-ending campaign is finally over. Now we wait anxiously for the result, wondering whose campaign strategy, whose tactics, whose television commercials and whose organization has won the prize. (Quotes UCSD political scientist Samuel Popkin) More

Battlefield Medic on a Chip
MIT Technology Review, Nov. 4 -- The majority of deaths on the battlefield occur within half an hour after injury--often too quickly for a soldier to get to a medic, let alone a hospital. But a collaboration between researchers at UCSD and Clarkson University, in New York, aims to change all that with a chip that could detect injuries and treat them almost instantly. More

Temporal Learning Center Gets $12M Grant
San Francisco Business Times, Nov. 4 -- The National Science Foundation awarded a $12 million grant the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center, a center Oakland-based Scientific Learning Corp. helped start. The grant is a second round of funding for the center, which was established in 2006 at UCSD. The center will use the funds to expand its research on the role of time in learning. More

UCSD Marks 40th Anniversary of County's First Kidney Transplant
KPBS, Nov. 4 -- UCSD Medical Center is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first kidney transplant in San Diego County. Doctors say the science of kidney transplants has greatly improved in recent years. More

Election Night Gatherings
KPBS, Nov. 3 -- Golden Hall in the Civic Concourse on C Street is traditionally “Election Central” in San Diego. But party faithful will each have their own venues within easy walking distance of Golden Hall, to celebrate or commiserate over the results. At UCSD, where 4,000 new voters have registered this year, an event is planned in the Great Hall. More

Trapping Carbon Dioxide Below the Earth
Voice of San Diego, Nov. 4 -- The world should hope Mark Zumberge's experiment keeps working. Off the Norwegian coast, deep beneath the turbulent North Sea, Zumberge, a Scripps Institution of Oceanography geophysicist, is monitoring one of the world's only efforts to trap carbon dioxide, to keep it from entering Earth's atmosphere and exacerbating climate change. The process is called carbon sequestration. More

Moores UCSD Cancer Center Studying Novel Leukemia Vaccine
San Diego Daily Transcript, Nov.3 -- Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at UCSD are conducting clinical trials of a novel therapy aimed at revving up the immune system to combat a particularly difficult-to-treat form of leukemia. More

Manecke Appointed Chair of Anesthesiology UCSD Health Sciences
San Diego Daily Transcript, Nov.3 -- Dr. Gerard Manecke has been named chair of the Department of Anesthesiology at the UCSD School of Medicine and Medical Center following a national search. More

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