University of California - Santa Cruz

University of California-Santa Cruz, (UC Santa Cruz) was founded in 1965 as one of the ten University of California campuses. UCSC has a student body of 15,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. UC Santa Cruz has a high rate of students who go beyond a bachelor degree and obtain a doctoral degree. UC Santa Cruz has a full range of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral programs. UC Santa Cruz is located about 75-miles south of San Francisco in one of the most picturesque areas of California where the sea and the Lomond Mountain Ridge frame the campus.

Address
1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
E-mail
bshiller@ucsc.edu

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Some bacteria may protect against disease caused by stomach infection

Half of the world's human population is infected with the stomach bacteria called Helicobacter pylori, yet it causes disease in only about 10 percent of those infected. Other bacteria living in the stomach may be a key fa ...

Immunology created Mar 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Novel technique reveals dynamics of telomere DNA structure

Biomedical researchers studying aging and cancer are intensely interested in telomeres, the protective caps on the ends of chromosomes. In a new study, scientists at UC Santa Cruz used a novel technique to reveal structural ...

Medical research created Jan 17, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Emerging vector-borne diseases create new public health challenge

Human activities are advancing the spread of vector-borne, zoonotic diseases such as West Nile virus, Lyme disease and dengue fever, report scientists publishing a series of papers today in the journal The ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Nov 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

BioMAP screening procedure could streamline search for new antibiotics

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have developed a new strategy for finding novel antibiotic compounds, using a diagnostic panel of bacterial strains for screening chemical extracts from natural sources.

Medications created Nov 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

UC Santa Cruz builds national data center for cancer genome research

The emerging field of "personalized" or "precision" medicine holds great promise in the fight against cancer. If scientists can identify the genetic changes that drive each patient's cancer cells, they can use that information ...

Cancer created May 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New connections between brain cells form in clusters during learning

New connections between brain cells emerge in clusters in the brain as animals learn to perform a new task, according to a study published in Nature on February 19 (advance online publication). Led by resear ...

Neuroscience created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Open-source' robotic surgery platform going to top medical research labs

Robotics experts at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the University of Washington (UW) have completed a set of seven advanced robotic surgery systems for use by major medical research laboratories throughout the ...

Other created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ulcer-causing bacteria tamed by defect in cell-targeting ability

Without the ability to swim to their targets in the stomach, ulcer-causing bacteria do not cause the inflammation of the stomach lining that leads to ulcers and stomach cancer, according to a new study by researchers at the ...

Medical research created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

West Nile virus transmission linked to land use patterns and 'super-spreaders'

After its initial appearance in New York in 1999, West Nile virus spread across the United States in just a few years and is now well established throughout North and South America. Both the mosquitoes that ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Oct 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Beyond calories and consumption, new book critiques obesity orthodoxies

Countering the so-called obesity crisis with local, organic, and seasonal food is a nice idea but one that is not likely to work, writes Julie Guthman, associate professor of community studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Health created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Personal contact reduces tension, prejudice

(Medical Xpress) -- Does interacting with other groups reduce prejudice and conflict? Can it be proven? "The answer is yes, it helps, overwhelmingly," says Thomas F. Pettigrew, social psychology research professor ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0