Is your Grandma feeling blue? Take a tip from a recent UCSD study and lend her your Wii for a round of tennis or two — the exercise will do her good.

There are nights when an exotic new dish — like dosas or sashimi — sounds awesome, and then there are the nights when all you want in the world is a taste of Mom’s meatloaf. Psychologists at UCSD have been investigating the reasons behind these choices by analyzing the effects of positive and negative moods on the decision-making portion of the brain.

UCSD researchers have found a way to keep brain tumors from coming back after remission.

While on the hunt for the gene responsible for ciliopathies — diseases caused by cellular malfunctions in organelles that affect kidney, liver, or nerve functions — UCSD researchers instead discovered a cellular cause of early onset blindness.

Researchers from UCSD have developed a “baby robot” to simulate the growth and development of a one-year-old child.

All Revelle College junior Thomas Dadourian needs for his new show — “Will It Chop” — is a samurai sword.
But Student-Run Television, which is scheduled to resume programming on Channel 18 this week, will need more than that to overcome a tumultuous history and regain campus recognition.

A delegation of nine scientists and graduate students from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography brought a scientific eye to the political United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen last month, where various solutions to global warming were under examination.

The Workers Rights Consortium, an independent labor rights organization, recognized UCSD on Nov. 18 for its efforts in reaching a “historic labor rights breakthrough” with the apparel manufacturer Russell Athletics, a subsidiary of Fruit of the Loom.

A breakthrough in visualizing how bacterial communication may lead to the discovery of drugs that could be capable of tackling diseases and infections caused by bacteria and microbes, like cancer, diabetes, ulcers and allergies.