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Using imaging mass spectrometry, researchers at the University of California, San Diego have developed tools that will enable scientists to visualize how different cell populations of cells communicate.

Many of the patients who fill the day are bereft, angry, broken. Their experiences are gruesome, their distress lasting and the process of recovery exhausting.

A robot powered by a computerized model of a rodent brain will help researchers from UC Irvine and UC San Diego understand how people recognize and adapt to change.

"Gordon", "Dash" - " First Supercomputers with SSDs Inside [11/05/2009 03:21 PM] by Anton Shilov The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build and operate a powerful supercomputer dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems.

Two local educators are among five "California Teachers of the Year" named today by state Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O'Connell, who chose one of the San Diego honorees for a national competition.

China's rapidly modernizing air force is planning a display of its new military might for its 60th anniversary, showcasing a wide-ranging technical upgrade that has boosted its capabilities, though it still lags far behind its main rival, the United States.

An international consortium of scientists is proposing to generate whole genome sequences for 10,000 vertebrate species using technology so new it hasn't yet been invented.

The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego has been awarded a five-year, $20 million grant from the National Science Foundation to build and operate a powerful supercomputer dedicated to solving critical science and societal problems now overwhelmed by the avalanche of data generated by the digital devices of our era.

Eli Lilly and Co. is taking another big step in its goal to become a major biotechnology player, opening a research complex in San Diego that will develop and test drugs for cancer, diabetes and autoimmune diseases.

UCLA student Joseph Tremba has won first place for his script "The Shoeshine Girl" in the 54th annual Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards.

Our social networks shape everything from our emotions and who we marry to how much we weigh, a new book says, and the way we interact suggests the most effective strategy to combat H1N1 is to vaccinate the most popular people.

Ri Gun, director general of the North American affairs bureau of North Korea s Foreign Ministry, center, and Derek Mitchell, U.S. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, left, are greeted by the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Director Susan Shirk, right, as they arrive for an informal ...

As part of its strategy to discover and develop more biotechnology medicines, Eli Lilly and Company today officially opened a new state-of-the-art biotechnology center on the West Coast.

Iranians signal that they agree on the plan's basic premise: sending their low-enriched uranium to Russia for further processing.

R. Duncan Hite, M.D., director of medical intensive care at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, has been named the new chief of the Section on Pulmonary, Critical Care, Allergy and Immunologic Diseases at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

The La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, an international leader in immunology research and San Diego's only research institute focused solely on immune-mediated diseases, today will dedicate its new Elam Discovery Wall and Type 1 Diabetes Center, which will focus on research into novel immunological-focused approaches to type 1 diabetes.

A team of chemists from the U.S. and France has found compelling evidence of a previously undocumented large volcanic eruption that occurred exactly 200 years ago, in 1809.

Since 1977, a small foundation based in Los Angeles has made a big impact on nearly 800 medical students at the University of California, San Diego.

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine report that regeneration of central nervous system axons can be achieved in rats even when treatment is delayed more than a year after the original spinal cord injury.

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