November 10, 2016
Hacking a Revolution in Biology Graduate students in new quantitative biology doctoral program learn to modify microscopes and other instruments to probe frontiers of their emerging discipline Photos by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Graduate studies within any single scientific discipline are challenging endeavors on their own. But imagine combining…
October 31, 2011
…in the Division of Biological Sciences. He also is a Distinguished Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology. He will speak at the Founders’ Symposium between 5:00 and 7:00 p.m. on Nov. 17 at the Medical Education and Telemedicine Learning Building. His lecture, to be held jointly with Dean of Physical…
July 31, 2013
A biology and physics professor at UC San Diego has received a $1.15 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a series of annual “boot camps” that will educate San Diego-area high school and college students about an emerging field at the intersection of physics and biology called…
June 19, 2012
Strains of bacteria able to resist multiple antibiotics pose a growing threat to public health, yet the means by which resistance quickly emerges aren’t well understood.
December 24, 2014
…novel study published online today in the journal Current Biology has finally provided an answer to this long unsolved conundrum. And it’s not what many biologists expected.
December 22, 2022
For the first time, researchers at UC San Diego have shown that changes in gene expression happen almost entirely during the transcription stage while the cells are growing. The researchers have provided a simple quantitative formula linking regulatory control to mRNA and protein levels.
April 4, 2024
A new center of excellence at the University of California San Diego integrates research, industry and technology to enhance quantitative biology.
December 11, 2014
Scientists have discovered a general principle for how cells could accurately transmit chemical signals despite high levels of noise in the system, they report in Science this week.
October 13, 2011
Many living things have stripes, but the developmental processes that create these and other patterns are complex and difficult to untangle.
December 6, 2011
…a partnered presentation titled “Quantitative Biology: The Convergence of Physical and Biological Sciences and the Future.” Steve Kay, dean of the Division of Biological Sciences, and Mark Thiemens, dean of the Division of Physical Sciences, described the blurring between once-discrete sciences. “Will biology become physics, as chemistry did in the…
