News
November 2, 2005
Researchers Develop New Method To Find Deadly Malaria Parasite's Achilles Heel
A team of UCSD researchers led by bioengineering professor Trey Ideker has discovered that the single-cell parasite responsible for an estimated 1 million deaths per year worldwide from malaria has protein “wiring” that differs markedly from the cellular circuitry of other higher organisms, a finding which could lead to the development of antimalarial drugs that exploit that difference Full Story
November 1, 2005
Researchers Learn How Blood Vessel Cells Cope with their Pressure-Packed Job
UCSD researchers stretched cells in a workout chamber the size of a credit card to gain a better understanding of how repetitive stretching of endothelial cells that line arteries can make them healthy and resistant to vascular diseases. Full Story
October 21, 2005
Scientists Discover Secret Behind Human Red Blood Cell's Amazing Flexibility
A team of UCSD researchers discovered how a mesh-like protein skeleton gives a healthy human red blood cell both its rubbery ability to stretch without breaking, and a potential mechanism to facilitate diffusion of oxygen across its membrane. Full Story
October 3, 2005
Thinking Big with the Very Small: Focus of New Cancer Nanotechnology Center at UCSD
In a new national effort to fight cancer with “nanoscale” devices that find and destroy tumor cells while leaving healthy tissue unharmed, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) today awarded the University of California, San Diego $3.9 million in the first year of a five-year $20 million initiative to establish a Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE). Full Story
September 30, 2005
Noise and Delays Explain Why Some Genes Oscillate in Activity
UCSD scientists report in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that the coupling of noise and time delay could also be an important factor in determining the variability in gene expression. Full Story
September 6, 2005
UCSD Bioengineering Professor Trey Ideker Named Top 35 Young Scientist by MIT's Technology Review Magazine
Trey Ideker, an assistant professor of bioengineering at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering, has been named one of the nation’s top 35 innovators under age 35 by MIT’s Technology Review magazine. Full Story
August 16, 2005
UCSD Named 'Hottest for Science' by Newsweek Guide
August 16, 2005--The University of California, San Diego, long regarded as one of the nation’s premier research universities, has been named the “hottest” institution in the country for students to study science by Newsweek and the 2006 Kaplan/Newsweek College Guide. Full Story
August 9, 2005
COSMOS Experience Ends on a High Note for High School Students at UCSD
The 83 students participating in the California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) program left the UCSD campus over the weekend, after showcasing their work for industry and family members at a Student Research Expo. In 2005 UCSD became the fourth UC campus after Irvine, Davis and Santa Cruz to host the COSMOS program. Full Story
August 8, 2005
Von Liebig Center Funds Five New Projects
The von Liebig Center awards more than $200,000 to five projects led by five professors at the Jacobs School of Engineering. Full Story
August 1, 2005
Researchers in Australia Perform Microsurgery in California over the Internet
Scientists from UC Irvine, UC San Diego and the University of Queensland have performed laser surgery and “optical trapping” via the Internet, producing surgical holes in a distinct pattern of less than one micron in diameter in single cells. Full Story