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Studies at the University of California, San Diego on metabolism using rat liver enzymes offer insight into why a promising new class of anti-tumor drugs--derived from a toxin of the poisonous jack-o'-lantern mushroom--could show selectivity and effectiveness in destroying cancer cells without harming healthy ones

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A team of physicists led by the University of California, San Diego has taken a major step forward in the evolving story of superconductors, the materials that lose resistance to electricity.

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Since they were discovered more than 35 years ago, science has largely accepted the idea that quasars--since they are thought to be great distances from us--could be used as cosmological tools to study the properties of the universe. Many astronomers have thought of quasars as windows to the history of our expanding universe.

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A collaborative effort between Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers at the University of California, San Diego and scientists at the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), National Institutes of Health (NIH), have identified the genes likely responsible for the mammalian sense of taste.

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Visitors to New York are more than 134 percent more likely to die from a heart attack than are visitors to other areas in the U.S., according to a new study completed by University of California, San Diego researchers and students.

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Atoms move about and bond with each other at a speed that's generally out of our grasp: one trillion times faster than the blink of an eye. But now a group of chemists, physicists and engineers at the University of California, San Diego, has devised a laser-based method for probing into the high-speed world of atoms to directly observe what happens when they move.

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Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have found that an important enzyme previously thought to be associated only with inflammation is also a key factor in skin formation and in programmed cell death.

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Researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a key link in a chain of events that protect the heart from cell death, which leads to heart failure.

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A new report in the April 27 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by evolutionary biologists at the University of California, San Diego shows that the history of humans is quite different from that of chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas and supports with genetics the controversial idea that humans have had at least one dramatic population reduction during the last million years.

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Researchers at UCSD School of Medicine have found that the drug flovoxamine improves symptoms of social phobia and improves paients' social, work and family life. Results of the study, which was carried out at UCSD and 3 other centers, are published in the May Issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry.