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Some people who have never been exposed to the coronavirus may have protection against it, but that is far from certain.
Avelas Biosciences is trying to help surgeons spot and completely remove breast tumors.
San Diego County is beefing up its enforcement of its health orders to try to curb the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus and is putting more money toward child care and food services to help people struggling during the pandemic.
Researchers at UC San Diego have discovered an “on-off” switch in plant immune responses that could give guidance to botanists on how to improve plants’ disease resistance and increase food stability.
Dennis Burton explains what is known (and isn’t known) about immune responses to the coronavirus.
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Company President and Chief Executive Yuichi Iwaki hopes to start human trials by December.
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Editor’s note: The La Jolla Light’s “People in Your Neighborhood” series shines a spotlight on notable locals we all wish we knew more about.
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Researchers from Shanghai and San Diego have developed a blood test that catches certain cancers up to four years before patients show symptoms, which could help doctors remove or treat tumors before they become deadly, according to a UC San Diego news release.
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Andy Friedman, a UC San Diego astronomer known for his insights about supernovas and the expansion of the universe and for explaining them to the public in places like Astronomy magazine and San Diego Comic-Con, died July 10 in San Diego.
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They say UCSD has done little to increase their numbers on a campus that has racial issues.
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UC San Diego plans to start a year-long celebration in September to commemorate the 50th anniversary of its Geisel Library.
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This Month in History is a feature in the La Jolla Light highlighting local happenings from yesteryear.
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The proposed development has received the green light from all local planning boards.
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Local dance school Ooh La La Dance Academy is offering parents of preschool and elementary school children a unique alternative to the online learning at home widely planned for public and private schools in the coming academic year.
“We’re ready to change the industry,” La Jolla resident and Quokka Brew partner Talia Chalhoub says of her company’s efforts to make coffee without caffeine’s jittery side effects.
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UC San Diego is looking for volunteers for a trial of an experimental treatment that could temporarily transfer immunity from the blood of COVID-19 survivors to those at risk of getting infected.
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Flossie Wong-Staal, a Chinese-American virologist who likely saved countless lives by helping to identify the cause of AIDS and who transformed UC San Diego into one of the world’s leading research centers on the disease, died July 8 in La Jolla.
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The flu is a strain of the virus that killed 285,000 people globally in 2009.
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“It was like a bomb went off in our clinic,” Renee St.
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San Diego’s two largest universities are developing ventilators for COVID-19 patients that could cost less than a flight to New York and back.
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Scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology have discovered a potential new way to better fight a range of infectious diseases, cancers and autoimmune diseases.
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UC San Diego says it will attempt to partly resume in-person classes this fall and will offer free and regular COVID-19 coronavirus testing to its 65,000 students, faculty and staff, a program that could cost up to $2 million a month.
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A La Jolla health service company was among 30 companies nationwide that recently received letters from the Federal Trade Commission telling them to cease claims about some of their products’ and services’ abilities to prevent or treat COVID-19.
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A plan to test all students, staff and faculty may not be sufficient to stop coronavirus spread.
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Two UC San Diego professors hope to turn a quickly growing hobby into an efficient, novel way to sanitize surfaces against viruses like the one that causes COVID-19.
