A Sampling of Clips for
January 3rd, 2007
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The Battle Over Hillcrest
Voice of San Diego, Jan. 2 -- For the past two years, operators of major San Diego hospitals have been locked in a bitter dispute about their visions for the future of health care in the region. In 2004, University of California, San Diego, rocked the local health care community when it revealed a long-term plan that called for transforming its Hillcrest Medical Center into an expanded, free-standing emergency room and moving all of its 385 inpatient beds to the university’s Thornton Hospital in La Jolla. More
A Rocky Pathway to Life's Origins
The Baltimore Sun, Dec. 29, 2006 -- For decades, scientists have looked for clues to the origin of life in out-of-the-way places: in ancient rock formations, in the heart of meteorites, in deep-ocean hydrothermal vents and even in the soil on Mars. But the fossils give up few hints about how those early life forms developed. "We have no geological record, no way of looking at all of this by picking up a rock," said Jeffrey Bada, an expert on life's origins at the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. More
Schwarzenegger Seeks
$95M for Green Research
Scientific American, Dec. 27, 2006 -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has proposed nearly $95 million in state spending on "clean" energy, biotech and nanotech research, the governor's office said on Wednesday. Much of the proposal -- $40 million -- would be spent only if California universities win a $500 million grant for research from oil giant BP to develop alternatives to fossil fuels. (Article mentions UC San Diego) More
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New "Chemical Factory" Will Help
Scientists Understand Red Wine’s Beneficial Effects
Health News Digest, Jan. 1 -- With a new picture of a bacterial enzyme in hand, Howard Hughes Medical Institute scientists are now on their way to making “chemical factories” that will help laboratory animals produce their own resveratrol — the compound behind red wine's frequently touted health benefits. Working with colleagues at the Salk Institute, including Gordon V. Louie, lead author of the Chemistry and Biology article, as well as collaborators at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the researchers grew crystals of the bacterial tyrosine ammonia lyase. More
Functional Brain Imaging Insights from UC San Diego Grad Student
HULIQ, Jan. 2 -- David Wipf, a recent graduate of the electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. program at
UC San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering, has won a 2006 Outstanding Student Paper Award at a prestigious conference for his work on human functional brain imaging. "With this work, functional brain imaging practitioners should be better able to assess the relative strengths and weaknesses of competing Bayesian approaches for source localization," said David Wipf, who performed the research and wrote the paper while at UCSD. More
Liver Sugar Linked to Heart Attack Risk
In The News, Jan. 3 -- Researchers have discovered a new clue to why some people have an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. A study from the University of California, San Diego, has established a key weakness
of a type of sugar in the liver which helps suppress dangerously high levels of fat in the bloodstream. High levels of fat in the bloodstream contribute to the build up of plaque in the arteries, which leads to an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. More
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