UCSD News

A Sampling of Clips for
October 6 ^th, 2006

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Greater Diversity of Life in Tropics
USA Today, Oct. 6 -- In other words, are the tropics a cradle of diversity or a museum? The answer: It's both. About three-quarters of today's types of oysters, clams, scallops and other bivalve mollusks originated in the tropics and spread outward toward the poles, while only one-quarter originated at higher latitudes, they report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. Kaustuv Roy, a biologist at UCSD, and co-authored the report. More

What Makes us Different?
Time, Oct. 1 -- Tiny differences, sprinkled throughout the genome, have made all the difference. Until recently, there was no way to unravel these crucial differences. But that's rapidly changing. Just a year ago, geneticists announced that they had sequenced a rough draft of the chimpanzee genome, allowing the first side-by-side comparisons of human and chimpanzee DNA. (Mentions research by glycobiologist Ajit Varki and colleagues at UCSD)
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Fatty Liver in Children Unnoticed
UPI, Oct. 6 -- A UCSD study found that a fatty liver was present in 13 percent of children and teens who died from traumatic accidents, homicide or suicide in San Diego County, California. More

Nobel Winner Cites Seeds of Conflict
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 6 -- Economics Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen told a packed UCSD auditorium last night about how emphasizing a particular part of someone's identity, such as religion or race, can promote confusion and conflict between people. More

Labor Pact Agreed on at UC
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 6 -- University of California administrators and university hospital nurses announced yesterday a tentative agreement on wages, health benefits and rest periods a week after nurses staged protests at campus hospitals in San Diego and several other cities. (Mentions the UCSD Medical Center) More

UCSD to Revise Report on Medicare
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 6 – The UCSD Medical Center will revise its 2004 wage costs for Medicare, reflecting findings in a report from the Office of Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. More

Funds Awarded for Robotic Technology
San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 6 -- The Center for Commercialization of Advanced Technology has given business awards and development grants to six companies that have engineered technologies for use in specific military robotic platforms. CCAT's major partners include the Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD and UCSD's von Liebig Center for Entrepreneurism and Technology. More