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Scripps Research Scientists Discover a Brain Cell Malfunction in Schizophrenia

LA JOLLA, CA – December 27, 2011 – Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered that DNA stays too tightly wound in certain brain cells of schizophrenic subjects. The findings suggest that drugs already in development for other diseases might eventually offer hope as a treatment for schizophrenia and related conditions in the elderly.The research, now available online in the new Nature journal, Translational Psychiatry, shows the deficit is especially pronounced in younger…See More
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Scientists Link Evolved, Mutated Gene Module to Syndromic Autism

Image using an electron microscope shows a cilium growing from a neuron. -Gleeson lab, UC San DiegoA team led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine reports that newly discovered mutations in an evolved assembly of genes cause Joubert syndrome, a form of syndromic autism.The findings are published in the January 26 online issue of Science Express.Joubert syndrome is a rare, recessive brain condition characterized by malformation or underdevelopment of the…See More
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Scripps Research Scientists Discover a Brain Cell Malfunction in Schizophrenia

Posted on December 28, 2012 at 6:30am 0 Comments

LA JOLLA, CA – December 27, 2011 – Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered that DNA stays too tightly wound in certain brain cells of schizophrenic subjects. The findings suggest that drugs already in development for other diseases might eventually offer hope as a treatment for schizophrenia and related conditions in the elderly.

The research, now available online in the new Nature journal, Translational Psychiatry, shows the deficit is especially…

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SDSC Supercharges its ‘Data Oasis’ Storage System

Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:30pm 0 Comments

Sustained Speeds of 100 GB/s Needed to Support SDSC’s ‘Big Data’ Initiatives

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego has completed the deployment of its Lustre-based Data Oasis parallel file system, with four petabytes (PB) of capacity and 100 gigabytes per second (GB/s), to handle the data-intensive needs of the center’s new …

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UC San Diego to Study Accelerated Aging in Schizophrenia

Posted on June 5, 2012 at 4:30pm 0 Comments

Researchers at the Stein Institute for Research on Aging at the University of California, San Diego have received a $4 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the National Institutes of Health, to study accelerated biological aging in schizophrenia.

“Schizophrenia is one of the most serious, challenging, and disabling mental illnesses,” said principal investigator Dilip V. Jeste, MD, Estelle and Edgar Levi…

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A Vision to Help

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Engineering students design bare-bones microscope for clinics in developing world

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Students at the Jacobs School of Engineering are working to develop a cheaper, lighter, multi-function microscope that could be used in clinics in developing countries. Their prototype will be flown to Mozambique this summer and field tested at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane in the country’s capital, Maputo.

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