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UC San Diego Named Dementia Research Center of Excellence

The Lewy Body Dementia Association has named UC San Diego a Research Center of Excellence including the Department of Neurosciences Memory Disorders Clinic and Movement Disorders Clinic.

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Adjusting the repair response to spinal cord injury



Prof. Binhai Zheng, PhD, and his team identify proteins involved in the spinal cord's response to injury.

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Discovery of previously unknown fluorescent proteins in Aequorea jellyfish



Dr. Nathan Shaner, PhD, and his colleagues discovered that jellyfish in the genus Aequorea, which gave us the first green fluorescent protein (GFP), contains additional fluorescent proteins with highly unusual properties that may lead to new techniques for imaging living cells. Read more



News From Our Autism Center

Brain imaging explains language ability

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in ASD. Read more Researchers find blood-based measure for ASD risk in males. Read more



How Sense of Smell is Encoded in the Brain

Discovery may lead to understanding the root

cause of epileptic seizures.

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