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UC San Diego Alumna Artist Carrie Mae Weems Leaves a Colorful Impression

October 22, 2015

Renowned UC San Diego alumna artist Carrie Mae Weems was warmly received when she returned to campus to present, “Color: Real and Imagined,” a lecture which captivated the audience Monday, Oct. 12 in the Price Center West Ballroom.

Biologists Create Malaria-Blocking Mosquitoes

November 23, 2015

Using a groundbreaking gene editing technique, biologists at UC San Diego, working in collaboration with biologists at UC Irvine, have created a strain of mosquitoes capable of rapidly introducing malaria-blocking genes into a mosquito population through its progeny, ultimately eliminating the insects’ ability to transmit the disease to humans.

Princeton Review Names UC San Diego Top University for Return-on-Investment

February 5, 2015

UC San Diego has earned top recognition in The Princeton Review’s new rankings for the return-on-investment the campus offers to students. UC San Diego is ranked the nation’s 31st best college for students seeking great academics, outstanding career preparation and generous financial aid. The campus is also named a great…

Small Molecule Drug Reverses ADAR1-induced Cancer Stem Cell Cloning Capacity

February 16, 2023

UC San Diego researchers report that a late-stage, pre-clinical small molecule inhibitor reverses malignant hyper-editing by a protein that promotes silencing of the immune response, metastasis and therapeutic resistance in 20 different cancer types.

UC San Diego’s Graduate Programs Among Nation’s Best, According to U.S. News and World Report

March 12, 2013

The 2014 edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools guidebook, released today, highly ranks the University of California, San Diego’s professional schools in engineering and medicine, as well as its academic Ph.D. programs in the social sciences and humanities.

U.S. News & World Report Names UC San Diego Graduate Programs Among Nation’s Best

March 11, 2014

The 2015 edition of the U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools guidebook, released today, highly ranks the University of California, San Diego’s professional schools in engineering and medicine, as well as its academic Ph.D. programs in the sciences.

New CRISPR-based Gene-Drive System in Bacteria Defeats Antibiotic Resistance

December 16, 2019

Scientists have developed a CRISPR-based gene-drive system that inactivates a gene rendering bacteria antibiotic-resistant. The new system leverages technology developed by UC San Diego biologists in insects and mammals that biases genetic inheritance of preferred traits called “active genetics.”

For First Time, Scientists Use CRISPR-Cas9 to Target RNA in Live Cells

March 17, 2016

…Medicine have now achieved this by applying the popular DNA-editing technique CRISPR-Cas9 to RNA. The study is published March 17 in Cell.

UC San Diego Helen Edison Lecture Series Presents Housing Insecurity Researcher, Matthew Desmond

November 16, 2023

The Helen Edison Lecture series welcomes Matthew Desmond, a professor of sociology at Princeton University, and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, and the more recently released, Poverty, By America.

Researchers Create New CRISPR Tools to Help Contain Mosquito Disease Transmission

May 28, 2021

Scientists have developed a toolkit that helps pave the way to a gene drive designed to stop Culex mosquitoes from spreading disease. Culex mosquitoes spread devastating afflictions stemming from West Nile virus, Japanese encephalitis virus and the pathogen causing avian malaria.

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