Part of the university’s Return to Learn program, wastewater screening helped prevent outbreaks by detecting 85 percent of cases early, allowing for timely testing, contact tracing and isolation
UC San Diego and community collaborators receive $3 million grant to develop more community-centered, precision approaches to reducing adverse childhood events that lead to obesity, a nationwide problem
The proliferation of microbiome research over the past several years has spawned nearly as many questions as it has answered and revealed myriad new frontiers to analyze and understand. One of the most intriguing fields of study is the link between the human microbiome and the pathogenesis of diseases, including diabetes, liver disease, and cancer.…
Microbiome research’s emergence as a burgeoning field has yielded an ever-increasing availability of data sets to study. While the massive amounts of data have presented the opportunity for a variety of novel studies, their intrinsic nature of being high-dimensional, undetermined, sparse, and compositional has also caused challenges. This explosion of data, both in volume and…
Topics include causes of miscarriage, preterm birth issues, preeclampsia and developmental origins of health and disease
Gene expression patterns associated with pandemic viral infections provide a map to help define patients’ immune responses, measure disease severity, predict outcomes and test therapies — for current and future pandemics
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 also tends to co-locate with one particular type of bacteria
The blood sugar-lowering drug metformin prevented pulmonary inflammation, a major factor in COVID-19 severity and mortality, in studies of mice infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus
UC San Diego School of Medicine researchers identify how the body regulates and prevents constant skin inflammation
University of California San Diego engineering and computer science undergraduates broaden their understanding of what it means to study engineering and computer science by getting involved in research.
