SAN DIEGO. Calif. - A San Diego research team is close to releasing a smart phone application to help illegal immigrants navigate safely across the border.

There seems to be a mobile phone application for just about everything these days -- even illegal border crossing.

Farms, unlike many businesses, often pass from generation to generation. While this is an ongoing process, the Lodi region is seeing farmers' sons and daughters not only stepping into its historic vineyard and orchard operations, but many also are helping build and run the dozens of small and medium-size wineries that have blossomed over the past ...

No doubt about it - Apple's announcement that it's selling a four-button, scroll-wheel-bearing USB mouse is big news.

UC San Diego School of Medicine today announced the appointment of Thomas E. Jackiewicz as new CEO of the UC San Diego Medical Center, effective November 23.A Jackiewicz will be responsible for the management of the Medical Center, which comprises UC San Diego Medical Center- Hillcrest, Thornton Hospital, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, Shiley Eye ...

Researchers from the University of California, San Diego recently offered the sharpest-yet picture of how core biochemical pathways in skeletal muscle cells and fat cells are altered in people who suffer from insulin resistance - a primary defect in type 2 diabetes and obesity.

The trial, conducted at the University of California, San Diego General Clinical Research Center, evaluated safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of a single dose of DR Cysteamine in nine cystinosis patients.

A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Stanford University has developed a way to simulate blood flow on the computer to optimize surgical designs.

The chapter on Israel in the U.S. State Department's 2009 Report on International Religious Freedom, issued in October, presents Israel in an embarrassing light - as one of the 30 countries "where violations of religious freedom have been noteworthy." According to the Americans, Israel is more similar to Russia or Turkey than it is to Saudi Arabia ...

Worried about overeating during the holiday? While this is a common concern, you don't have to give in to negative thinking and start planning your post-holiday diet.

Children should be allowed to get dirty, according to scientists who have found being too clean can impair the skin's ability to heal.

On the skin's surface, bacteria are abundant, diverse and constant, but inflammation is undesirable.

Hardening of the arteries has been detected in Egyptian mummies, some as old as 3,500 years, suggesting that the factors causing heart attack and stroke are not only modern ones; they afflicted ancient people, too.

Construction began Friday at UC San Diego's School of Medicine on a 99,000-square-foot facility that will be used to teach future physicians high-tech ways of delivering health care, from telemedicine to robotic surgeries.

Most people would like to be able to charge their cell phones and other personal electronics quickly and not too often.

November 19, 2009 A-A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a direct link between insulin - a hormone long associated with metabolism and metabolic disorders such as diabetes - and core body temperature.

A study by neuroscientist William C. Mobley, MD, PhD, chair of the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and colleagues at Stanford University Medical School has demonstrated a possible new approach to slowing the inevitable progression of cognitive decline found in Down\'s syndrome.

A new study finds that atherosclerosis, hardening of the arteries, was common in ancient Egyptians, challenging a belief that vascular disease is a modern affliction caused by current-day risk factors such as stress and sedentary lifestyles.

In a study that promises to improve diagnosis and monitoring of Alzheimer's disease, scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed a fast and accurate method for quantifying subtle, sub-regional brain volume loss using magnetic resonance imaging .

Biologists at UC San Diego have discovered that honeybees can discriminate between food at different temperatures, an ability that may assist bees in locating the warm, sugar-rich nectar or high-protein pollen produced by many flowers.