Latest University of California, San Diego Stories

2011-10-24 22:48:47

Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have succeeded in unraveling, for the first time, the complete chain of biochemical reactions that controls the synthesis of auxin, the hormone that regulates nearly all aspects of plant growth and development.

Image 1 - Planet-sized Object Is As Cool As The Earth
2011-10-20 06:45:36

The photo of a nearby star and its orbiting companion -- whose temperature is like a hot summer day in Arizona.

2011-10-13 20:53:24


Image 1 - Suspects Exonerated In The Quenching Of Star Formation
2011-10-12 04:23:27

Supermassive black holes millions to billions times the mass of our Sun lie at the heart of most, maybe all large galaxies.

2011-10-11 12:06:32

A newly developed method for microscopically extracting, or "mining," information from genomes could represent a significant boost in the search for new therapeutic drugs and improve science's understanding of basic functions such as how cells communicate with one another.

2011-10-03 22:51:28

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have developed what they believe to be the first polymeric material that is sensitive to biologically benign levels of near infrared (NRI) irradiation, enabling the material to disassemble in a highly controlled fashion.

2011-09-27 18:01:28

A study by scientists at the University of California, San Diego and UC Irvine has identified an enzyme called a proteasome phosphatase that appears to regulate removal of damaged proteins from a cell.

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