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Scientists at UC San Diego and Scripps Research in La Jolla say they’re geared up to help in the worldwide effort to assess whether the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 coronavirus is more transmissible and harmful than earlier versions of the virus.
Researchers at UC San Diego in La Jolla are among those undertaking studies assessing whether medicinal mushrooms and Chinese herbs can provide therapeutic benefit in treating COVID-19 infection.
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The couple will donate $1 for every $2 raised by the biological science institute during a period that will end June 30.
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“The discovery process is just pure joy,” said Ardem Patapoutian, a neuroscientist at Scripps Research in La Jolla who last month won the 2021 Nobel Prize in medicine or physiology for discovering skin receptors that enable people to sense heat, cold, pain, touch and sound.
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The undertaking is expected to help in the development of new drugs and therapeutics.
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The mountain is in water more than 3 miles deep and has a diameter of roughly 22 miles.
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An alliance of health, parent and community organizations has started a campaign called San Diegans vs. Big Tobacco.
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Scientists at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology received $2.6 million as part of a larger effort to develop protective shots against past, present and future coronaviruses.
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Trying to ease her peers’ mental health concerns, a La Jolla teenager has taken on projects at her school and hopes to continue advocating for ways to help.
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Seventeen crew members from the Coast Guard were seen cleaning Windansea Beach on Oct. 18, soon after reports and photos of tarballs on La Jolla beaches began surfacing more than two weeks after a broken pipeline spilled at least 25,000 gallons of crude oil off the Orange County coast.
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Measures at La Jolla’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Birch Aquarium aim to protect marine life while oceanographers assist in wind and currents forecasts.
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A program to accelerate the study of cliff collapse got a financial boost this month when state Assembly Bill 66 was signed into law.
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Let Them Choose, part of the Let Them Breathe group, argues that the district lacks the legal authority to require vaccinations.
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Researchers plan to use a series of shots to teach people’s immune systems to produce powerful antibody responses against the virus.
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Benjamin List, who worked at Scripps Research, will share the prize with David MacMillan, who worked at UC Berkeley.
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Stefan Savage and colleagues remotely disabled the brakes on a moving Chevrolet Impala. Now the American Association for the Advancement of Science has given them a Golden Goose Award.
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Ardem Patapoutian and his research partner, physiologist David Julius, identified temperature and touch receptors.
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An idea born in La Jolla to help improve the lives of people with Alzheimer’s disease and their loved ones is officially rolling out, with the first Gleam in Your Eye box shipped Oct. 1.
