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A jumbo phage infects a bacterium. A nucleus-like compartment (green) is formed to protect the newly synthesized phage genomes from bacterial defense systems. The capsids (gray) of the new phage travel along filaments called PhuZ (yellow) to be delivered to the nucleus where they dock in order to package phage DNA. Eventually, the bacterial cell lyses and the new phage emerge ready to infect new bacteria. Credit: Margot Riggi, Iwasa Lab, University of Utah. Copyright Elizabeth Villa and Joe Pogliano, UC San Diego

Therapeutic Potential of Bizarre ‘Jumbo’ Viruses Tapped for $10M HHMI Emerging Pathogens Project

Categories Health

The light purple fish in the lower left of this photo is Pyrolycus jaco, a newly identified species of eelpout. It’s shown here among mussels and tubeworms at the Jacó Scar hydrothermal seep. Image credit: ROV SuBastian/Schmidt Ocean Institute

New Species of Deep-Sea Fish Discovered off Costa Rica

Categories Life & Non-humans

Children collect water at a camp in Dadaab, Kenya. Photo: journalturk/iStock

Climate Change Exacerbating Gastrointestinal Problems in Children

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Health

Close up of cannabis leaves

More Older Adults Ending Up in the ER Because of Cannabis

Categories Health, Social Sciences

This image was generated by artificial intelligence based upon a request for 3D art using a natural language interpretation of “artificial intelligence that detects mutations in the genome.” Photo by Joseph Gleeson/UC San Diego

AI Learns to ID Rare ‘Mosaic Mutations’ That Cause Disease

Categories Health, Technology

Madison Wilson, a PhD student at UC San Diego, is first author of the study showing that human brain organoids implanted in mice have established functional connectivity to the animals’ cortex and responded to external sensory stimuli.

Human brain organoids implanted into mouse cortex respond to visual stimuli for first time

Categories Brain & Behavior, Life & Non-humans

Compared to wild type control mice, hippocampal neurons in PKCa M489V mice showed fewer dendritic spines.

Enzyme drives cognitive decline in mice, provides new target for Alzheimer’s

Categories Brain & Behavior, Health

Artificial neural networks are computing systems inspired by biological neural networks that constitute animal brains. Like biological models, they can learn (be trained) by processing examples and forming probability associations, then apply that information to other tasks.

Artificial neural networks need sleep too

Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology

A new book from School of Global Policy and Strategy professor Susan Shirk addresses why some consider China a looming threat — and what the West could do about it

Overreach: How China Derailed Its Peaceful Rise

Categories Social Sciences

Unexpected activity in dormant bacterial cells offers lessons for understanding life in extreme states on Earth and perhaps other planets

The Thinking Undead: How Dormant Bacteria Calculate Their Return to Life

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans

Rob Knight, PhD, is a professor in the departments of Pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Bioengineering and Computer Science at UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering.

Atlas describes associations between cancers and fungi

Categories Health

Tiny alginate bead implants invented in the laboratory of Rice University bioengineer Omid Veiseh can be loaded with cells that produce cytokine, proteins that play a major role in immune response. A new study found a treatment combining the implants and checkpoint inhibitor drugs eradicated advanced mesothelioma tumors in all seven mice in which it was tested. (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)

High R&D isn’t necessarily why drugs are so expensive

Categories Health, Social Sciences

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