News tagged with san diego
SDSC dashes forward with new flash memory computer system
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Leveraging lightning-fast technology already familiar to many from the micro storage world of digital cameras, thumb drives and laptop computers, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, ...
SD Zoo's online Panda Cam crashes due to overload
Aug 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The San Diego Zoo's pandas have become such cyber-stars that their Panda Cam got caught in a popularity crunch.
San Diego Zoo panda gives birth to 5th cub
Aug 05, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Prized San Diego Zoo panda Bai Yun gave birth Wednesday to her fifth cub after a 130-day pregnancy that zookeepers said ended with an apparently pleasant labor.
GEN highlights emerging biotechnology clusters
May 05, 2009 |
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Although Boston, San Francisco, San Diego, and Cambridge (U.K.) are always near the top of most biotechnology cluster lists, other areas around the world are starting to pop up on the life science radar screen, reports Genetic ...
Swine flu cases up to 7; officials expand probe (Update)
Apr 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Health officials are investigating a never-before-seen form of the flu that combines pig, bird and human viruses and which has infected seven people in California and Texas. All the victims recovered, but the cases ...
Biologists Discover Missing Piece of Plant Clock
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists at the University of California, San Diego have identified a key protein that links the morning and evening components of the daily biological clock of plants.
Protein helps immune cells to divide and conquer
Mar 08, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a key protein that is required for immune cells called B lymphocytes to divide and replicate themselves. The rapid generation of large ...
New explanation for a puzzling biological divide along the Malay Peninsula
Mar 06, 2009 |
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Ecologists at the University of California, San Diego, offer a new explanation for an apparently abrupt switch in the kinds in of mammals found along the Malay Peninsula in southeast Asia - from mainland species to island ...
Transparent zebrafish a must-see model for atherosclerosis
Mar 05, 2009 |
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We usually think of fish as a "heart-healthy" food. Now fish are helping researchers better understand how heart disease develops in studies that could lead to new drugs to slow disease and prevent heart ...
Data Travels Six Times Faster in the Clouds
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The National Center for Data Mining (NCDM) at the University of Chicago at Illinois established a cloud computing system that can quickly compile data from widely geographically distributed ...
Laser treatment clinical trial misses primary endpoint
Feb 23, 2009 |
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Using a laser to treat cells in the brain did not significantly reduce stroke disability, according to results of the first major clinical trial of laser therapy presented at the American Stroke Association's International ...
Safer nanoparticles spotlight tumors, deliver drugs
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Small is promising when it comes to illuminating tiny tumors or precisely delivering drugs, but many worry about the safety of nano-scale materials. Now a team of scientists has created miniscule ...
Decoding short-term memory with fMRI
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 21, 2009 |
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People voluntarily pick what information they store in short-term memory. Now, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), researchers can see just what information people are holding in memory based ...
Study indicates how we maintain visual details in short-term memory
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 20, 2009 |
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Working memory (also known as short term memory) is our ability to keep a small amount of information active in our mind. This is useful for information we need to know on-the-fly, such as a phone number or the few items ...
San Diego Supercomputer Center begins cloud computing research using the Google-IBM CluE cluster
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 18, 2009 |
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Researchers from the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, have been awarded a two-year, $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to explore new ways for academic researchers ...
