Ahead of this year’s Emmy Awards, UC San Diego professor of Ethnic Studies Curtis Marez discussed what four nominated shows—Widow’s Bay, Pluribus, DTF St. Louis and Beef—reveal about Hollywood’s effect on the places where television is made.
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UC San Diego's Illustrious Alumni Awards celebrate extraordinary leadership, innovation and impact by alumni. This year's honorees include Marc Brutten ’79, Patricia Brutten ’83, Debby Goosenberg Buchholz ’84, Marina L. Marrelli ’82 and David N. Price, MIA ’17.
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A new report for California policymakers assesses current flood modeling practices and offers eight recommendations to improve how mitigation infrastructure is reflected in the catastrophe models that are used to set insurance prices.
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This September, Scripps Institution of Oceanography invites the community to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (CMBC), an interdisciplinary center dedicated to advancing marine biodiversity research and addressing conservation challenges.
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Living human cells will launch aboard a European research rocket next month as South Australian researchers use space to investigate cancer in a radically different environment.
This summer, Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego released 223 Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs into their native habitat in Southern California’s San Jacinto Mountains.
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A University of Minnesota-led multi-institutional research team has discovered a highly potent small molecule that blocks Ebola virus entry by stabilizing the virus's entry protein and provides strong protection when given orally in a preclinical model.
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The StartBlue Ocean Enterprise Accelerator program led by Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego is welcoming its newest cohort of innovators ready to take their ocean-related ideas to the next level.
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STEM majors are expected to know how to critically read scientific research, even if no one ever taught them how. UC San Diego alumni Genevive Bjorn and Adam Burgasser wrote “How to Critically Read the Scientific Research Literature: Introducing the CERIC Method” to help young researchers learn how
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In her new leadership role, Chiappinelli will build cancer research programs while continuing her work on how ancient viral DNA can trigger anti-tumor immune responses.
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In her new leadership role, Chiappinelli will build cancer research programs while continuing her work on how ancient viral DNA can trigger anti-tumor immune responses.
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Scientists recently discovered various Denisovan remains in Southwest China dating back to the late Middle Pleistocene, including the first Denisovan radius—one of two long bones in the forearm. Denisovans are a genetically identified archaic hominin group believed to have been widely distributed across Asia. However, due to the limited number of fossil remains, especially postcranial bones—those
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现代主栽香蕉品种高度依赖营养繁殖，存在遗传基础狭窄、遗传多样性低等问题。芭蕉科现存约80个物种，不同类群在染色体基数（如 n =11、10和9）以及花苞颜色等性状上呈现多样性，是研究植物染色体结构演化和花器官性状分化的理想类群。然而，这些不同染色体基数的演化形成机制、染色体结构变异与花苞颜色分化的内在关联，长期以来缺乏基因组与细胞遗传学层面的直接证据。
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Understanding how domestication reshapes brain structure and function remains a fundamental question in evolutionary biology. The hippocampus is a key brain region involved in memory and stress regulation, and it has been thought to undergo "simplification" during domestication. However, the cellular mechanisms underlying these changes remain poorly understood. In a study published in PNAS on Sept
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Dr. Teun Munnik has been appointed Professor of Plant Cell Biology at the University of Amsterdam. Munnik is affiliated with the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) at the Faculty of Science. The appointment came into effect on 1 January 2026. As professor, Munnik will further strengthen research and education in molecular cell biology within the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences.
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The human body is a marvel of remake and renewal. We regularly replace some of our estimated 37 trillion cells – about 300 billion or 1 percent of our cells each day - with healthy substitutes. We remove damaged or aging, senescent cells and cellular debris from our organs and tissues every second of the day. How important is it that cellular waste be properly removed?
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