Susanne Bard

2 months ago | today.ucsd.edu | Susanne Bard

Published Date April 17, 2025 Article Content Our immune systems weaken as we get older, making fewer cells that fight infection and help us recover from illness and injury. Scientists aren’t completely sure why. They may have a better idea now, however, thanks to a new study in GeroScience. “Immune cell changes occur during aging for a number of reasons, but we still don’t completely understand why we have fewer antibody-producing cells with age,” said Leslie Crews, Ph.D., assistant...

Mar 25, 2025 | today.ucsd.edu | Susanne Bard

Article Content The incidence of Human Papillomavirus (HPV)-associated oropharyngeal cancers — tumors of the back of the mouth and throat — is rising. If caught early, most of these cancers have a high survival rate, but about 20% of patients have a poor prognosis.

Feb 7, 2025 | today.ucsd.edu | Susanne Bard

Published Date February 07, 2025 Article Content This story is from the 2025 issue of Discoveries, a UC San Diego Health Sciences magazine. Imagine a patient rushed to the hospital during a heart attack. While performing CPR, the emergency medical team reaches for a ready-to-use epinephrine pen to restart the heart. But due to a shortage of the lifesaving pens, the provider has to grab a vial of epinephrine instead, remove the cap, swab it with alcohol and draw the medication out with a...

Feb 4, 2025 | medicalxpress.com | Susanne Bard

Nearly 60,000 people are diagnosed with oral cancer in the U.S. every year, according to the American Cancer Society, and the rate of new cases continues to rise. Now, researchers at University of California San Diego have discovered how healthy stem cells are transformed into cancer stem cells in the earliest stages of the disease. Oral cancer—also known as head and neck squamous cell carcinoma—affects the mouth, throat, nose, sinuses and voice box.

Dec 6, 2024 | medicalxpress.com | Susanne Bard

Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and their colleagues have developed the first comprehensive map of the dramatic changes that take place in the blood system over the course of the human lifetime. The study was published on December 5 in Nature Methods. The team quantified the gene expression of more than 58,000 individual hematopoietic (blood) stem cells at seven stages, from early fetal development to old age.