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Overlooked ‘Housekeeping’ Gene Plays Unexpected Role in Seizures

August 26, 2020

Molecules known as tRNAs are often overlooked in study of disease processes. Researchers have now found that a mutation in a tRNA gene called n-Tr20—expressed only in the brain—can disrupt the landscape of entire cells, leading to chain reactions that alter brain function and behavior.

Leading-edge Technology Unmasks Protein Linked to Parkinson’s Disease

August 19, 2020

An elusive protein that many consider the key of fully understanding the causes of genetic Parkinson’s disease has come much more clearly into focus. Impacting millions around the world, Parkinson’s is a neurological disorder that progressively attacks motor functions.

Evolutionary Stalling: Researchers Explore the Boundaries of Natural Selection

August 18, 2020

What are the boundaries of natural selection? Research published in PNAS shows that even natural selection has a tough time optimizing performance simultaneously across multiple components of the cell. They call the concept "evolutionary stalling."

Novel ‘On-off’ Switch Discovered in Plant Defenses

July 21, 2020

Researchers investigating the ways that plants protect themselves—from insects to pathogens—have discovered an “on-off” switch that controls plant defensive mechanisms. The finding lays the groundwork for improved plant disease resistance and food stability.

Researchers Discover Two Paths of Aging and New Insights on Promoting Healthspan

July 16, 2020

Scientists have unraveled key mechanisms behind the mysteries of aging. They isolated two paths that cells travel during aging and engineered a new way to genetically program these aging routes. The researchers also identified a master circuit that guides the aging processes.

National Science Foundation Awards SDSC $5 Million to Develop Innovative AI Resource

July 1, 2020

The NSF has awarded SDSC a $5 million grant to develop a high-performance resource for conducting artificial intelligence (AI) research across a wide swath of science and engineering domains.

Poseidon Innovation Announces Funding for Three UC San Diego Researchers

June 26, 2020

UC San Diego and Deerfield Management created Poseidon Innovation to support researchers working to advance disease-curing therapeutics by funding early stage projects and expediting the drug-development cycle. Poseidon announces it is funding three researchers.

Supercomputer Simulations Show How DNA Prepares Itself for Repair

June 25, 2020

Researchers from Harvard University and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston recently used the Comet supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego to uncover the novel ways in which DNA prepares itself for repair.

SDSC’s Sherlock Cloud Announces Skylab

June 23, 2020

The Sherlock Division of SDSC has broadened its secure Cloud solutions portfolio to offer Skylab, an innovative customer-owned Cloud platform solution that provides a self-standing, compliant environment for secure workloads in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud.

Georgia Tech Engineers Simulate Solar Cell Work Using Supercomputers

June 22, 2020

Because of silicon’s relatively high cost, hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) have emerged as a lower-cost and highly efficient option for solar power, according to a study by Georgia Institute of Technology researchers.
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