62° Mostly CloudyRoundtable: Cancer in Jail; Sea Wall Lawsuits; Frogs With Fungus; Mice With Alzheimer's; Undocumented Millions
- May 17
- Midday Edition
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A woman dying in Las Colinas jail would be released if she were in prison. Homeowners atop the Solana Beach bluffs may sue the city. The decision to import African Clawed Frogs decades ago having dire consequences now. The landscape of undocumented immigrants in California and the nation is complex.
Fungus-Spreading Frogs Could 'Wipe Out' California Amphibians
- May 17
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The San Diego Zoo's resident frog disease expert worries that a fungus carried by invasive frogs could make most of California's amphibians simply disappear.
Qualcomm's Matt Grob Talks Wireless Technology And Healthcare On White House Series
- May 17
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Better wireless technology helps us play more games and stream more movies on our smartphones, but Qualcomm's executive vice president, Matt Grob points to another area for its use.
NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Shut Down Because Of Technical Difficulties
- May 15
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For the last four years, the Kepler space telescope has been searching for distant relatives of the Earth. Today, NASA announced that their planet-hunting spacecraft is no longer able to keep up that search.
Salk Researchers Halt The Progression Of Alzheimer's In Very Old Mice
- May 14
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Researchers at the Salk Institute are making progress on a compound that they believe could potentially stop Alzheimer's disease in its tracks. To show just how promising their drug candidate is, they put it through unusually hard experiments.
Adapting To The New Reality Of Increased Wildfire Danger
Governor Jerry Brown is warning Californians that climate change will make wildfires more frequent and dangerous. We'll assess what the governor means about adapting to this new reality.
Online Searches Show Recession's Effect On Mental Health
- May 9
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The economy may be getting its groove back, but the nation's collective mental health remains in a funk. By studying online searches, a local researcher finds that the public's anxieties haven't receded, even though the worst of the recession has.
New Test Unveiled In San Diego Could Change Prostate Cancer Treatment
- May 8
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By telling doctors how aggressive a patient's prostate cancer is, a new test could help more men decide to forgo aggressive — and sometimes unnecessary — treatments.
Scripps Researchers Help Addicted Rats Stay Clean With Heroin Vaccine
- May 7
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Vaccines usually protect us from invaders. But scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have been making progress on a different kind of vaccine — one that would inoculate people against substances they willingly put into their own bodies.
Palomar Observatory Will Assist In Worldwide Search For Gravitational Waves
- May 3
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Astronomers around the world are beginning to use new tools, some of them right here in San Diego County, to track down the ripples in space-time predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity.
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