MySDScience's – June 2012 Archive (7)

SDSC Supercharges its ‘Data Oasis’ Storage System

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

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

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

Photo by Treyscope Media

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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How Infectious Disease May Have Shaped Human Origins

Inactivation of two genes may have allowed escape from bacterial pathogens, researchers say

<p><em>Escherichia coli </em>bacteria, like these in a false-color scanning electron micrograph by Thomas Deerinck at UC San Diego’s National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, cause a variety of often life-threatening conditions, particularly among the young. Varki and colleagues suggest a genetic change 100,000 or so years ago conferred improved protection from these microbes, and likely altered human evolutionary development.</p>

Escherichia coli bacteria, like these in a false-color scanning electron micrograph by Thomas Deerinck at UC San Diego’s National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, cause a variety of often life-threatening conditions, particularly among the young. Varki and colleagues suggest a genetic…

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Rattlesnakes Strike Again in San Diego, Bites More Toxic

UC San Diego Health System Toxicologist Offers Venomous Bite Advice

Each year, approximately 8,000 Americans are bitten by venomous snakes. On average, 800 or so bites occur annually in California, home to an abundance of snake species, but only one family is native and venomous: rattlesnakes.

“This is the time of year when we see a rise in snake bites,” said Richard Clark, MD, director of the Division of Medical Toxicology…

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Scripps Research Institute Study Suggests Expanding the Genetic Alphabet May Be Easier than Previously Thought

LA JOLLA, CA – June 3, 2012 – A new study led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute suggests that the replication process for DNA—the genetic instructions for living organisms that is composed of four bases (C, G, A and T)—is more open to unnatural letters than had previously been thought. An expanded “DNA alphabet” could carry more information than natural DNA, potentially coding for a much wider range of molecules and enabling a variety of powerful applications, from…

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San Diego Medtech Entrepreneur Peter Farrell Elected to Scripps Research Institute Board of Trustees

LA JOLLA, CA, June 1, 2012 – Peter Farrell, chairman and chief executive officer of San Diego-based ResMed, has been elected to The Scripps Research Institute’s Board of Trustees.

“We would like to offer Peter a warm welcome,” said Dick Gephardt, President/CEO of Gephardt Government Affairs and lead trustee of the Scripps Research Board of Trustees. "We are confident his contributions to the board will help foster the Institute's continued preeminence in biomedical research and…

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