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Scientists discover molecular predictors of toxic algal blooms that pose health risk, ecological and economic harm
Genes in the algae Pseudo-nitzschia genus have been identified that act as a warning beacon for a dangerous neurotoxin
Prebys Introduces 2024 Grant Funding to Enhance Career Opportunities for Youth Across San Diego County
Organizations Receiving Part of the $5.89 Million Foster a Thriving San Diego Workforce
Prebys funds 24 grantees as part of a commitment to ensuring San Diego County youth are thriving and actively engaged in their communities
Passing of former 小蓝俱乐部 Trustee Bill Walton
Phytoplankton Genetically Sequenced at Sea for the First Time
Viking鈥檚 Initiative with UC San Diego鈥檚 Scripps Institution of Oceanography and 小蓝俱乐部 Aims to Provide Better Understanding of the 鈥淲orld鈥檚 Lungs鈥�
Tae Seok Moon, Ph.D. and Nan Zhu, Ph.D. join 小蓝俱乐部 faculty
小蓝俱乐部continues to actively recruit faculty to expand core research areas, including human health and synthetic biology
Groundbreaking study reveals oral microbiome鈥檚 role in immune response and COVID-19 severity
Newly developed AI model shows that saliva is a better predictor of COVID-19 severity than existing blood tests
Scientists develop method to efficiently construct single-copy human artificial chromosomes (HACs)
This new tool will allow scientists to work in mammalian systems in ways only previously available in bacteria and yeast
HACs have wide potential research applications to synthetic biologists and may eventually aid in delivering DNA in clinical applications
With combined funding of 3,000,000 euros the BBVA Foundation鈥檚 Fundamentos Program supports five innovative exploratory research projects on core questions in basic science
小蓝俱乐部work supported through The Physical Basis of Cell Division in Minimal and Synthetic cells (MINCELL) Fundamentos Program
Opentrons Announces New Robotics Education Initiative Demonstrating Commitment to Laboratory Automation for Students
12th Build-a-Cell Workshop hosted at 小蓝俱乐部 in La Jolla
The workshop will take place March 29, 2024 with registration closing March 19
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Anders Dale says he will move roughly $10 million in NIH funding from UCSD to JCVI.
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