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In the Media: Dr. Ajit Varki
Dr. Ajit Varki is one of a team of researchers whose recent study is described in the Wired article, “Rare Gene Glitch a Clue to Genomics Mystery.” Ajit Varki, M.D., is Professor of Medicine in the...
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Missing Molecule Raises Diabetes Risk in Humans
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego say an evolutionary gene mutation that occurred in humans millions of years ago and our...
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A Cancer Marker and Treatment in One?
UC San Diego Researchers Find Promise in Non-Human Sialic Acid Antibodies Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say antibodies to a non-human sugar molecule commonly...
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Glycans Enter Mainstream of Biomedical Science
UC San Diego leads new national program to further develop the science of glycobiology Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have received a major 7-year, $18 million...
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Sexual Selection by Sugar Molecule Helped Determine Human Origins
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine say that losing the ability to make a particular kind of sugar molecule boosted disease protection in early hominids, and may...
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How Infectious Disease May Have Shaped Human Origins
Inactivation of two genes may have allowed escape from bacterial pathogens, researchers say Roughly 100,000 years ago, human evolution reached a mysterious bottleneck: Our ancestors had been reduced to...
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Cancer and the Immune System: A Double-Edged Sword
Cell surface sugars can promote or inhibit cancer depending upon stage During cancer development, tumor cells decorate their surfaces with sugar compounds called glycans that are different from those...
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