Susan G. Komen for the Cure(R), San Diego to Receive Proceeds from Miz Mandy Album Release Concert
SAN DIEGO , July 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Susan G. Komen for the Cure((R)), the world's largest grassroots network of breast cancer survivors and activists committed to ending breast cancer forever, announced today that its San Diego Affiliate will receive proceeds from the alb...Special One-Day Rates Available For DIA 45th Annual Meeting June 21-25 in San Diego
The 45th Annual Meeting provides access to more than 350 sessions focusing on issues in global drug discovery and development, three megatracks in IT, clinical research, and advertising/marketing/medical communications, and the industry's largest interactive exhibit hall. ...San Diego Psychiatrist Scott Irwin Honored With National Recognition
Palliative care psychiatrist from The Institute for Palliative Medicine plays unique role SAN DIEGO, May 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- San Diego psychiatrist Scott Irwin, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Palliative Care Psychiatry Program (PCPP) at The Institute for Palliative Medicine, has bee...Lice Removal Salon Offers San Diego an Upscale Solution to an Undesirable Problem
Hair Fairies ( www.hairfairies.com ) opens new salon to help San Diego's frantic families rid themselves of lice SAN DIEGO, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Hair Fairies, the head lice helpers, ( www.hairfairies.com ) today announced that it will open the first and only head lice removal salon in ...211 San Diego Provides Support to San Diegans in Times of Crisis
Event to Honor Qualcomm CEO SAN DIEGO, May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- WHAT: 211 San Diego executives will highlight key initiatives the organization is undertaking to make 211 a nationwide service, discuss the critical role that 211 plays in the community durin...Gordon Binder & Weiss Vision Institute in San Diego Launches Innovative New Website
A top vision care practice in San Diego, California is opening its virtual doors to the worldwide web with new, cutting-edge technology. The Gordon Binder & Weiss Vision Institute is using internet video and other advanced tools on a new website designed to educate visitors as to how they can...Raptor Pharmaceuticals Enters Collaboration Agreement with UC San Diego in Liver Disease
Raptor to Support Phase 2a Clinical Trial at UCSD NOVATO, Calif., July 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Raptor Pharmaceuticals Corp. ("Raptor" or the "Company") (OTC Bulletin Board: RPTP), today announced the execution of a collaboration agreement (the "Agreement") with the University o...PG500 Series Presented at the AACR Annual Meeting in San Diego
BRISBANE, Australia, April 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Progen Pharmaceuticals Limited (ASX: PGL) (Nasdaq: PGLA ) announced today that it had presented new data on its patented PG500 series of compounds at the annual American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting being held in San Di...UC San Diego engineer provides insights to decades-old DNA squabble
A group of nanoengineers, biologists and physicists have used innovative approaches to deduce the internal structure of chromatin, a key player in DNA regulation, to reconcile a longstanding controversy in this field. This new finding could unlock the mystery behind the origin of many diseases suc...Regional partnership to develop algal biofuels gets backing of San Diego leaders
San Diego Mayor Jerry Sanders today joined UC San Diego Chancellor Marye Anne Fox, local scientists and industry leaders to announce their support for a regional partnership designed to develop innovative ways to turn algae into biofuels. Speaking at a news conference on the UC San Diego campus...New method developed by UC San Diego bioengineers gives regenerative medicine a boost
Bioengineers at UC San Diego have developed a breakthrough method for sequencing-based methylation profiling, which could help fuel personalized regenerative medicine and even lead to more efficient and cost-effective methods for studying certain diseases. To do this, the researchers, led by K...UC San Diego bioengineering professor trey ideker wins 2009 Overton Prize
University of California, San Diego bioengineering professor Trey Idekera network and systems biology pioneerhas won the International Society for Computational Biology's Overton Prize. The Overton prize is awarded each year to an early-to-mid-career scientist who has already made a significant co...UC San Diego senior named Churchill Scholar for extraordinary undergraduate research
Vikram Juneja, a UC San Diego senior, has been named the first Churchill Scholar at the university and he will use the $50,000 award to complete a one-year graduate program at Cambridge University, where he will work on a master's thesis on cancer stem cell research. Juneja, a mechanical engine...UC San Diego and Genentech scientists develop potentially disruptive antibody sequencing technology
Bioinformatics researchers at the University of California, San Diego and Genentech have developed a new, quicker way to sequence monoclonal antibodies a process that is many times faster than the sequencing technology typically used by academic and industry researchers today. The breakthroug...New drugs faster from natural compounds: A UC San Diego breakthrough
Researchers have invented computational tools to decode and rapidly determine whether natural compounds collected in oceans and forests are newor if these pharmaceutically promising compounds have already been described and are therefore not patentable. This University of California, San Diego ...San Diego Wireless Heavyweight Leap Wireless Supports New Start-up Incubator
CommNexus Forms Non-Profit to Support Innovative Start-up Companies and Entrepreneurs in Communications and Communications Convergence San Diego, CA (PRWEB) June 17, 2009 -- CommNexus and Leap Wireless, International, Inc., the parent company of Cricket Communications...Life sticks: UC San Diego bioengineer's sticky insights published in journal Science
Sticky is good. A University of California, San Diego bioengineer is the first author on an article in the journal Science that provides insights on the "stickiness of life." The big idea is that cells, tissues and organisms hailing from all limbs of the tree of life respond to stimuli using bas...A Scientific Milestone: Sex of Dolphin at SeaWorld San Diego Determined Prior to Conception
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the world's rare sex-selected zoological species, an Atlantic bottlenose dolphin, was born Nov. 28 at SeaWorld San Diego. The birth further validates the park's ability to preferentially produce female or male offspring through the use of sperm sexing...San Diego universities, government and industry rally around local Clean-Tech cluster
San Diego professors who are developing technologies that will fuel the continued growth of the region's "clean tech cluster" recently received a financial boost through the 2008 Clean Tech Innovation Challenge. The Clean Tech Innovation Challenge is a partnership between the City of San Diego,...BioEditor from San Diego Super Computer Center - Bioeditor
Description: Overview: Once a macromolecular structure has been determined, the challenge is to communicate that information to a widely diverse audience of scientists, educators and students. Current options include the printed literature and dissemination over the Internet, either via online journals or direc...