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Rate Video: Al Gore at UCSD - Part 5Video included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at YouTube external link    Sat, Mar 7

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By rss@youtube.com (Searking) Al Gore speaks on his old professor Dr. Roger Revelle, founder of... Author: Searking Keywords: Al Gore UCSD Global Warming Oceanography University of California San Diego Roger Revelle College Scripps Institute Oceonagraphy La Jolla Mandeville Auditorium Added: March 7, 2009

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Original at YouTube external link    Sun, Mar 1

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By rss@youtube.com (LibertarianYou) Glen David Brin, Ph.D. (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received both the Hugo [1] and Nebula Awards [2]. Contents Brin was born in Glendale, California in 1950. In 1973, he graduated from the California Institute of Technolo...

Rate Video: Cellular Biophotonics at UCSD - Optical Manipulation of Two BeadsVideo included in this story.  Click to view.

Original at Google Video external link    Thu, Oct 23

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Two polystyrene microbeads are controlled individually using optical forces. Cellular Biophotonics Laboratory The Whitaker Institute and the Department of Bioengineering, University of California, San Diego The Beckman Laser Institute and the Department of Biomedical Enginee...

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November of 2009

 

Rate Researchers find potential treatment for Huntington's disease

Original at EurekAlert external link    Sat, Nov 14

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, UBC and UCSD have found that normal synaptic activity in nerve cells protects the brain from the misfolded proteins associated with Huntington's disease. They also found that the drug Memantine, which is approved to treat Alzh...

Rate Jacobs School Ranked 9th in the World

Original at Jacobs School Mechanical Aerospace Engineering external link    Mon, Nov 2

The University of California, San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering is the 9th best in the world for engineering/technology and 15th in the world for computer sciences, according to an academic ranking of the top 100 world universities published by the Institute of Higher Education,...

Rate Lymphoma Research Foundation announces recipients of CLL/SLL Research Initiative grants

Original at EurekAlert external link    Tue, Oct 27

Lymphoma Research Foundation) The Lymphoma Research Foundation is pleased to announce that David Frank, M.D., Ph.D., of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Thomas Kipps, M.D., Ph.D., Moores Cancer Center, University of California, San Diego, are the recipients of the second round of fundi...

Rate Team led by Scripps Research and UC San Diego scientists reveals secrets of drought resistance

Original at EurekAlert external link    Wed, Oct 21

A team of biologists in California led by researchers at The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, San Diego, has solved the structure of a critical molecule that helps plants survive during droughts. Understanding the inner workings of this molecule may help sc...

Rate Nobel Prize winner Markowitz recommends economic solutions at INFORMS annual meeting

Original at EurekAlert external link    Thu, Oct 1

Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) University of California -- San Diego Adjunct Professor Harry M. Markowitz, whose seminal work in portfolio theory led to his receiving the John von Neumann Theory Prize in 1989 and the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1990, wil...

Year 2009

 

Rate Building a complete metabolic model

Original at EurekAlert external link    Wed, Sep 16

Investigators at Burnham Institute for Medical Research, University of California, San Diego, the Scripps Research Institute, Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and other institutions have constructed a complete model, including 3-D protein structures, of...

Rate Memories of the way they used to be

Original at EurekAlert external link    Wed, Sep 16

A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla have developed a safe strategy for reprogramming cells to a pluripotent state without use of viral vectors or genomic insertions. Their studie...

Rate Researchers uncover potential mechanisms to protect against genetic alterations, diseases

Original at EurekAlert external link    Wed, Aug 5

University of California - San Diego) Peering into the DNA of tiny yeast, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego and the San Diego Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research have pinpointed a large number of genes that can prevent a type...

Rate Researchers observe single protein dimers wavering between two symmetrically opposed structures

Original at EurekAlert external link    Thu, Jun 18

Researchers at the Scripps Research Institute, the University of California, San Diego, and Ohio State University have used a very sensitive fluorescence technique to find that a bacterial protein thought to exist in one "natural" three-dimensional structure (shape), can actuall...

Rate In Memoriam: Thomas P. Nickell Jr., 88

Original at USC external link    Fri, May 29

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 California From Rancho Santa Fe, where he maintained his home for nearly three decades, Nickell served on the boards of the Scripps Foundation for Medicine and Science; the Shiley Eye Institute of the University of California, San Diego; American Medical ...

Rate Study May Aid Efforts To Prevent Uncontrolled Cell Division In Cancer - Science Daily

Original at Science Daily external link    Thu, May 28

press release) ScienceDaily (May 28, 2009) — Researchers from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a remarkable property of the contractile ring, a structure required for cell division. ...

Rate Study may aid efforts to prevent uncontrolled cell division in cancer

Original at EurekAlert external link    Wed, May 27

University of California - San Diego) Researchers from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a remarkable property of the contractile ring, a structure required for cell division. Understanding how the c...

Rate Herbert York, Physicist Who Helped Develop Atomic Bomb And Later ...

Original at All Headline News external link    Sun, May 24    8 related articles

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He later served as Chancellor of the University of California, San Diego and then as the university's Director Emeritus of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation and chairman of the Scientific and Academic Advisory Committee, which oversees ...

Rate New model suggests role of low vitamin D in cancer development - EurekAlert

Original at EurekAlert external link    Thu, May 21

press release), DC Other authors on the study include Edward D. Gorham, Sharif B. Mohr and Frank C. Garland, UC San Diego. The Moores UCSD Cancer Center is one of the nation's 41 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, combining research, ...

Rate Design team selected for performing arts center

Original at San Antonio Express external link    Mon, May 18

 TX LMN recently completed a music school at the University of California, San Diego, and designed the home of Seattle's symphony and ballet. It won a 2001 National Honor Award from the American Institute of Architects for the Seattle Symphony's Benaroya ...

Rate ERK1, ERK2 activities key to ovarian functions, fertility

Original at BCM external link    Thu, May 14

 TX Shimada of Hiroshima University in Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan; Esta Sterneck and Peter F. Johnson of the Center for Cancer Research of the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, MD., and Stephen M. Hedrick of the University of California, San Diego. ...

Rate Disease prevention will reduce costs

Original at thedailylight.com external link    Wed, May 13

 TX Bryan A. Liang serves as executive director of the Institute of Health Law Studies, California Western School of Law; and co-director, San Diego Center for Patient Safety, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.

Rate Program manager sells 4BD in Sammamish

Original at seattle.blockshopper.com external link    Mon, May 4

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 IL - Diana Davis She was also a post-doctoral researcher at Salk Institute for Biological Studies and the University of California-San Diego. She received her BS in zoology from the University of Florida and her Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from the University ...

Rate California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Awards Grant to UC ...

Original at Imperial Valley external link    Sun, May 3

 CA San Diego, California - A stem cell researcher from the University of California, San Diego, Yang Xu, professor of biology, has been awarded a $5.16 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). ...

Rate Encapsulating Pancreatic Cells Can Lead to Safer Transplantations

Original at Medgadget.com external link    Tue, Apr 14

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By Michael Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the University of California San Diego may have overcome a major stumbling block in the long term treatment of Type 1 diabetes. Transplantation of pancreatic cells has been a difficult endeavor, partially because of the immune r...

Rate NOAA Submits Proposed Recovery Plan to Congress to Help Create ... - Media Newswire

Original at media-newswire.com external link    Wed, Apr 8

The new facility will be on the University of California, San Diego ( UCSD ) campus, enabling NOAA to sustain its strategic and functional relationships with UCSD and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Fairbanks Satellite Facility Construction ( $9 ...

Rate Device Protects Transplanted Pancreatic Cells from the Immune System

Original at UCSD Medical Center external link    Wed, Apr 8

 CA Scientists at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) School of Medicine and Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have found that transplanted pancreatic precursor cells encased in polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE, a material akin ...

Rate Circuits Lab Research Team Enhances Home Wireless Base Station

Original at Imperial Valley external link    Fri, Mar 6

 CA The femto makes service seamless," explains Kimball, a member of the Circuits Lab in the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). A corporate partner approached the research team with the ...

Rate Adult Stem Cell Successes Continue, Setback for Embryonic

Original at Dakota Voice external link    Tue, Feb 24

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22 says researchers have found another avenue for progenitor cells: Taking clues from their stem cell research, investigators at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) and Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have discovered ...

Rate SDSC’s new Green campus building

Original at p2pnet.net external link    Mon, Oct 20

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By Jon The new building is also home to one of the first ‘OptIPortals,’ connected to the NSF TeraGrid via the ‘OptIPuter,’ an optical network device developed by UC San Diego’s California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2),”says the SDSC, adding:

Rate Adaptive Path Selects Former frog/IDEO Exec as its Chief Executive Officer

Original at News from Adaptive Path external link    Wed, Jul 9

Meyer has a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He holds an appointment as a Fellow of the Batten Institute, Darden GSBA, University of Virginia, where he has taught early-stage innovation and product develo...

Year 2007

 

Rate Squirrel, a Personal Air Pollution Monitor

Original at Medgadget.com external link    Mon, May 7

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By Michael This cool Bluetooth-enabled gadget is being developed by Shannon Spanhake and colleagues at the University of California San Diego and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2): The price of wireless and sensor technology has dropped en...

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