Joseph McClain

Sep 17, 2024 | jlab.org | Joseph McClain

Theorists turn to supercomputers to help build a 3D picture of the structures of protons and neutronsNEWPORT NEWS, VA – Deep inside what we perceive as solid matter, the landscape is anything but stationary. The interior of the building blocks of the atom’s nucleus — particles called hadrons that a high school student would recognize as protons and neutrons — are made up of a seething mixture of interacting quarks and gluons, known collectively as partons.

Aug 19, 2024 | today.ucsd.edu | Joseph McClain |Miles Martin

Published Date August 19, 2024 Article Content Tim Brown, Ph.D., looked across his office, pressed “record” and cued Margie Orem. “Laaaa,” Orem sang: A above middle C, precisely on pitch at 440 hertz. Brown is a professor and researcher in the University of California San Diego School of Medicine Department of Neurosciences and the director of the Sentia Laboratory for Childhood Systems Neuroscience. He was working to assemble a set of audio files with Orem, director of the San Diego...

Jul 31, 2024 | today.ucsd.edu | Joseph McClain |Miles Martin

Published Date July 31, 2024 Article Content A new generation of artificial intelligence (AI) tools designed to allow rapid, low-cost detection of clinically actionable genomic alterations directly from tumor biopsy slides has been developed by a team led by engineers and medical researchers at University of California San Diego. A paper describing the new AI protocol for examining routine biopsies, called DeepHRD, was recently published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Senior author...

Jun 17, 2024 | today.ucsd.edu | Joseph McClain |Miles Martin

The study team found that the proper use of multivariate methods yielded satisfactory results with studies involving as few as a couple dozen participants. According to Makowski, typical neuroimaging studies operate from univariate analyses, which test a correlation or association between one point in the brain and one behavior. “In that case, yes, you may need thousands of participants in the study.”She explains that multivariate studies take in a pattern of associations.

May 9, 2024 | today.ucsd.edu | Joseph McClain |Miles Martin

Published Date May 09, 2024 Article Content Pradipta Ghosh, M.D., sat down in her office at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and considered a request from the other side of the world. Ghosh, a professor in the Departments of Medicine and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine, received an email from Dennis McGonagle, Ph.D., professor of investigative rheumatology at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. It began an international...