Imagine trying to assemble a puzzle with an ever-increasing number of pieces that vary in clarity and detail. Just as you solve one small section, you step back and discover new pieces have spilled off the table and left you with shifting context, reshaping the task ahead. Evolutionary microbiologists face precisely this predicament. Over the…
Poorly understood compared to bacteria and viruses, the new work opens the door to using tell-tale fungi as a diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic tool.
National Institutes of Health establishes Microbiome and Metagenomics Center at UC San Diego, part of new effort to predict individual responses to food and inform personalized nutrition recommendations
The foods we eat have a wide range of effects on our bodies. They provide energy and nutrients, affect our health, and even bring us pleasure. In addition, our diet influences the composition of our gut microbiome, which has a wide range of implications for our health. While the fact that our dietary choices impact…
The Center for Microbiome Innovation (CMI) at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) is proud to announce that 17 of our members appear on the list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers from Clarivate: Shane Crotty – Immunology Pieter Dorrestein – Cross-Field Jack Gilbert – Microbiology Chris Glass – Molecular Biology and Genetics…
Blending experts from molecular genetics, chemistry and health sciences, researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a rapid diagnostic technology that detects SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
When early evidence emerged that people with COVID-19—whether or not they have symptoms—shed the virus in their stool, “the sewer seemed like the ‘happening’ place to look for it,” said Smruthi Karthikeyan, an environmental engineer and postdoctoral researcher who works in the lab of Rob Knight at UC San Diego School of Medicine.
With cases continuing to surge across the US, it is clear that we need a different approach.
Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine have received a $6.1 million grant to launch a new Center of Excellence in Therapeutics to study the effects of medications on…
Some scientists have called it “superhuman immunity” or “bulletproof.” But immunologist Shane Crotty prefers “hybrid immunity.”
Genetically engineered mosquitoes could be the key to winning the war against malaria, a disease that affects more than 200 million people every year and kills more than 400,000 –…
A new glioblastoma drug is derived from a microbe found in the ocean at depths of up to 6,500 feet
A species of marine bacteria shows promise for curing a nasty brain cancer.
