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KPBS Midday EditionNational City Mayor Alejandra Sotelo-Solis joined a cohort of 2,000 local volunteers in a vaccine trial COVID-19. -
Proposition 14 asks California voters to issue $5.5 billion in bonds to continue financing the state’s stem cell research institute. -
Gilead Sciences Inc., said Thursday that Remdesivir is approved for people at least 12 years old who need hospitalization for their coronavirus infection. A large U.S. study found it cut the time to recovery by five days — from 15 days to 10 on average. -
Genalyte's SARS-CoV-2 Multi-Antigen Serology Panel tests for the presence of IgG and IgM antibodies the body produces in response to the novel coronavirus. -
NASA astronaut and UC San Diego graduate Kate Rubins arrived aboard the International Space Station Wednesday, where she and two Russian cosmonauts will conduct research over the next six months. -
San Diego State University pauses in-person classes amid a surge in COVID-19 cases among students, San Diego takes steps to help hotel workers reclaim lost jobs, and the tight race for congress in east county. -
In a new discovery, scientists show how one of the smallest particles in the universe gets its mass. This is crucial to understanding the origins of our existence. -
UC San Diego faculty and student researchers have devised a way to turn algae into flip-flops. Once discarded, the flip-flops can decompose in as little as 16 weeks. -
UCSD and Scripps Institution of Oceanography alumna Megan McArthur will head to space as the pilot for the SpaceX Crew-2 mission in early 2021, NASA announced this week. -
Molecular biologists and bioengineers at UC San Diego isolated two distinct paths that cells travel during the aging process and engineered a new way to genetically program these processes to extend lifespan in yeast cells.
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