Roger Tsien, a professor at University of California in San Diego, mutated and otherwise altered the GFP gene to produce various colors.
Gary Jacobson of the University of California in San Diego says the wielders of campaign funds have become expert at spotting competitive candidates and giving them the money they need to make a fight of it.
Elisabeth Gerber, of the University of California in San Diego, has found that opulent special-interest groups such as the oil and tobacco industries almost never succeed in pushing through self-serving initiatives, though they can sometimes block measures aimed against them.
Men and boys with autism have fewer neurons in a part of the brain involved in memory and emotion, according to a new study by scientists at the University of California in San Diego and the MIND Institute at UC Davis.
Published on Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study was written by a group of seven academics from Harvard, Stanford and the University of California at San Diego who work in the fields of psychology, business and public policy.
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Among his degrees are a BA in Mathematics and BS in Molecular Biology from the University of California, San Diego and a PhD in Biology from MIT.
The study found no clear difference between the lies used by mothers and fathers, according to researchers, who were from psychology departments at the University of California San Diego in the US, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua in China and the University of Toronto, Canada.
Teams at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dartmouth College, the University of Michigan, Purdue University and the University of California at San Diego declined to take part in the review.
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Anthony Wynshaw-Boris and Joy Greer from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine in La Jolla, writing in the same journal, say the findings are "intriguing".
Two researchers, Karthik Muralidharan of the University of California at San Diego and Venkatesh Sundararaman of the World Bank, tested that idea in 300 state-run schools in Andhra Pradesh in India.
Some other researchers are still suspicious of those findings, however, and Dr. Gazzaley of the University of California at San Diego is quick to point out that all of this research is still in the earliest stages -- he's expecting some more detailed findings next year when his team expands their tests and begin to incorporate EEG monitoring as well.
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Fred Gage, of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, and Mark Tuszynski, of the University of California, San Diego, have been tinkering not with controversial embryonic nerve cells, but with unassuming skin cells.
But a few researchers at University of California, San Diego, and the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla.
Also in 2001 Jay Cox of the University of California, San Diego, published research demonstrating the potential of fluoroquinolones to cause peripheral neuropathy.
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"Currently, there are no approved therapies in regenerative medicine for heart failure, " said Karen Christman, assistant professor of bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, who wasn't involved in the latest experiments.
New Scientist magazine reports that the researchers, led by Mark Tuszynski, of the University of California, San Diego, believe a substance called nerve growth factor (NGF) can prevent the death of cells in the brain known as cholinergenic neurons, and stimulate new connections between the cells.
Rather, the findings suggest that the health benefits of chocolate may be linked to how many times in a given week chocolate is eaten rather than the total amount consumed in that week, says the study's lead researcher, Beatrice Golomb, an associate professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego.
Research by my University of Chicago colleague Steve Levitt and Julie Cullen of the University of California, San Diego, showed that for every homicide that occurs in a city, total population declines by 70 people.
But scientists at the University of California, San Diego, say they are the first to consider how the enzymes in the gut, which normally digest our food, could play a key role in this process.
Mary Walshok, a dean at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Closing America's Job Gap, points out one more danger in specific career goal-setting.
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