New Findings May Fix the Replicability Crisis in Microbiome Research
July 1, 2024
UC San Diego researchers have discovered another factor that affects the composition of the gut microbiome: time of day.
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UC San Diego Unveils Center for the Future of Surgery
November 29, 2011
…feet of space. Surgeons, gastroenterologists and nurses can access the newest simulators, tools and cameras, representing $30 million in equipment. “I am part of a surgical team that is developing new minimally invasive techniques that are better for patients in terms of recovery and cosmetic effect,” said Coker, who arrived…
Launching a Microbiome Movement
May 19, 2016
…UC San Diego clinical gastroenterologists and genetic sequencing experts, as well as computer scientists who are developing the high-performance computing, metagenomic assembly and data visualization infrastructure needed to read out microbiomes and analyze the results. Develop platform technologies — with academic-industry partnerships The UC San Diego Center for Microbiome Innovation…
Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants UC San Diego $4.7M to Study Crohn’s Disease
May 9, 2019
…science engineers, pathologists and gastroenterologists. Together, they will build and validate a stem cell-based “gut-in-a-dish” model of Crohn’s disease, as a “Phase 0” human model before clinical trials. Pradipta Ghosh The stem cells will be derived from intestinal biopsies of patients with the disease and used to reverse-engineer the gut…
UC San Diego to Participate in White House’s National Microbiome Initiative
May 13, 2016
On May 13, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced a new National Microbiome Initiative, a coordinated effort to better understand microbiomes and to develop tools to protect and restore healthy microbiome function. OSTP is launching the initiative with a combined federal agency investment of more…
MAGNET Study Sees Potential for MRE in Measuring Liver Fibrosis in Children
May 11, 2017
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with collaborators across the nation, have determined that magnetic resonance elastography (MRE) can be an accurate, non-invasive tool to identify liver fibrosis in children. Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is now the most common cause of chronic liver disease in…
Genetic Variation Explains Racial Disparity in Esophageal Cancer Cases
September 22, 2022
Researchers at UC San Diego have used artificial intelligence-guided tools to pinpoint both a specific type of immune cell as the driver of esophageal cancer and a specific genetic variation that acts as a protective factor in African Americans.
