Novel Virus Discovered in Half the World's Population - August 20, 2014

 

SDSU researchers identified a highly abundant virus that may play a major role in obesity, diabetes. The virus, named crAssphage, has about 10 times as many base pairs of DNA as HIV.

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A new study finds that humans and corals share a key biomechanical pathway that tells cells when to die.

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Biology professor Forest Rohwer defied Arctic climes to seek out nature's most diverse forms of life.

An $8.5 million grant for treating heart disease with stem cells has been awarded to San Diego State University professor Mark Sussman.

Thirteen students researching areas from medicine to engineering received scholarships totalling more than $90,000.

A San Diego State University researcher and his graduate student were nearly crushed last month by a four-story iceberg.

Sanford Bernstein leads a research team to unlock new treatments for human muscle and cardiac diseases.

It's off to the great white north for San Diego State University biologist Forest Rohwer and his grad student Steve Quistad. They leave this weekend for Russia, where they'll catch the ice breaker MS Polaris out of Murmansk for the long trip north to Franz Josef Land, a collection of nearly 200 ice-covered islands in the Arctic Ocean..

SDSU's Integrated Regenerative Research Institute aims to harness the power and healing potential of stem cells.