The coronavirus pandemic has produced startling images, not just of besieged emergency rooms, but of deserted highways, beaches, and other public places—of life interrupted everywhere.
Environment
Apr 24, 2020
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The mammalian cell lines that are engineered to produce high-value recombinant-protein drugs also produce unwanted proteins that push up the overall cost to manufacture these drugs. These same proteins can also lower drug ...
Biochemistry
Apr 23, 2020
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Measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus have reduced the demand for fuel and slashed oil prices. Global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), the chief long-term cause of climate warming, have slid perhaps by one-fifth ...
Economics & Business
Apr 16, 2020
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In a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), University of California San Diego researchers moved one step closer to the ability to make heparin in cultured cells. Heparin is ...
Biotechnology
Apr 10, 2020
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Timing is everything. A fresh example supporting the old saying has been found in connection with the systems regulated by biological clocks.
Plants & Animals
Apr 8, 2020
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Scientists at UC San Diego and Brookhaven Laboratory in New York went searching for superconducting materials where researchers have had little luck before. Setting their sights on a diverse population of meteorites, they ...
Superconductivity
Mar 24, 2020
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In a sampling of fish from a creek that flows into San Diego Bay, nearly a quarter contain microplastics, according to a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE. The study, which examined plastics in coastal sediments ...
Ecology
Mar 18, 2020
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Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a computational tool that makes modeling and simulation of complex cellular processes more true to life.
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 18, 2020
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Arctic and Antarctic ice loss will account for about one-fifth of the warming that is projected to happen in the tropics, according to a new study led by Mark England, a polar climate scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 16, 2020
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While concerns loom over an impending recession caused by the spread of COVID-19, policymakers and business leaders have implemented radical strategies, such as slashing interest rates to invigorate the U.S.'s weakened economy. ...
Economics & Business
Mar 16, 2020
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