A study published today in the journal Science Advances, suggests global ocean circulation has accelerated during the past two decades. The research team found that oceanic kinetic energy shows a statistically significant ...
Earth Sciences
Feb 6, 2020
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Protein design is a popular and rapidly growing field, with scientists engineering novel protein cages—capsule-like nanostructures for purposes such as gene therapy and targeted drug delivery. Many of these structures fashioned ...
Biochemistry
Jan 23, 2020
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Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have discovered how a new immune system works to protect bacteria from bacteriophages (phages), viruses that specifically infect bacteria. This new system ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jan 10, 2020
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A new study from researchers at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego has documented a successful recovery effort among Nassau Grouper populations in the Cayman Islands thanks to ...
Ecology
Jan 6, 2020
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Atmospheric rivers pose a $1 billion-a-year flood risk in the West, according to a study released today.
Earth Sciences
Dec 4, 2019
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A new study provides a fundamental understanding of the diversification of small molecules called respiratory quinones and its adaptive consequences in bacterial species. Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 25, 2019
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One of the best studied topics of molecular biology is bacterial chemotaxis-the movement of bacterial cells in response to chemical stimuli. While scientists at UC San Diego thought they—and the science community in general—knew ...
Cell & Microbiology
Nov 6, 2019
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Exploring the influence of galactic winds from a distant galaxy called Makani, UC San Diego's Alison Coil, Rhodes College's David Rupke and a group of collaborators from around the world made a novel discovery. Published ...
Astronomy
Oct 31, 2019
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Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a method to significantly extend the life of gene circuits used to instruct microbes to do things such as produce and deliver drugs, break down chemicals ...
Biotechnology
Sep 5, 2019
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A research team led by the University of California San Diego has discovered the root cause of why lithium metal batteries fail—bits of lithium metal deposits break off from the surface of the anode during discharging and ...
Materials Science
Aug 21, 2019
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