pimg src=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/graphics/images/2009/08-09ParasiticRoundworms01TS.jpg alt=Photo of Burundi children height=80 width=120 //p pWorking with researchers in China, biologists at UC San Diego have discovered how a Chinese drug effective in killing parasitic roundworms works. Their discovery of the drug’s biological mechanism provides important new information about how to combat parasitic roundworms, which infect more than a billion people in tropical regions and are one of the leading causes of debilitation in underdeveloped countries. a href=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/08-09ParasiticRoundworms.aspMore/a/p

pThe Moores UCSD Cancer Center and the UC San Diego Medical Center have opened a new radiation oncology building on the La Jolla medical center campus that expands clinic and office space, while adding to the program’s advanced imaging and treatment technologies. It also offers technology to make radiation therapy more readily available for children who need it. a href=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/health/08-09Oncology.aspMore/a/p

pAn international team of scientists, led by researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have discovered a connection between mutations in the INPP5E gene and ciliopathies. a href=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/health/08-09Ciliopathies.aspMore/a/p

pimg src=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/graphics/images/2009/08-09ElectronicVoting01TS.jpg alt=Photo of Electronic Voting Machine height=80 width=120 //p pComputer scientists demonstrated that criminals could hack an electronic voting machine and steal votes using a malicious programming approach that had not been invented when the voting machine was designed. The team of scientists from University of California, San Diego, the University of Michigan, and Princeton University employed “return-oriented programming” to force a Sequoia AVC Advantage electronic voting machine to turn against itself and steal votes. a href=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/08-09ElectronicVoting.aspMore/a/p

pimg src=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/graphics/images/2009/08-09TreeCampus01TS.jpg alt=Photo of Jess Wall height=80 width=120 //p pUC San Diego’s dedication to campus forestry management and environmental stewardship was cited by the national Arbor Day Foundation in naming the campus as a 2009 “Tree Campus USA University” for the second consecutive year. a href=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/08-09TreeCampus.aspMore/a/p

pimg src=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/graphics/images/2009/08-09Extinction01TS.jpg alt=Photo of Venus Clams height=80 width=120 //p pGlobal calamities like the one that doomed most dinosaurs forever alter the varieties of life found on Earth. But new research shows that it doesn’t take a catastrophe to end entire lineages. An analysis of 200 million years of history for marine clams found that vulnerability to extinction runs in evolutionary families, even when the losses result from ongoing, background rates of extinction. a href=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/08-09Extinction.aspMore/a/p

pimg src=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/graphics/images/2009/08-09TritonResource01TS.jpg alt=Triton Resource height=80 width=120 //p pThe San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, today officially launched the Triton Resource, an integrated, data-intensive computing system primarily designed to support UC San Diego and UC researchers. a href=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/supercomputer/08-09TritonResource.aspMore/a/p

pimg src=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/graphics/images/2009/07-09CCSE02TS.jpg alt=Photo of fuel cell height=80 width=120 //p pThe California Center for Sustainable Energy in San Diego announced today that the University of California, San Diego will receive $11 million in incentives from California’s Self-Generation Incentive Program for the installation of an innovative fuel cell energy generation and storage system. a href=http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/07-09CCSE.aspMore/a/p