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The Kiwanis Club of La Jolla distributed more than $400,000 in grants including $10,000 to the La Jolla Community Center and $9,000 for La Jolla High School tennis courts, while La Jolla Playhouse announced its Innovation Night honoree and the cast for world-premiere musical "Grim."
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Parham Ramezani-Rad has launched the Rad Lab at La Jolla Institute for Immunology to study how B cells learn to fight viruses like HIV, backed by NIH funding and a 2025 study showing an mRNA vaccine could steer B cells toward HIV-targeting antibodies.
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Researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine found that a naturally occurring peptide called catestatin reduced toxic protein buildup and improved brain function in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease, though human trials remain years away.
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A new study from La Jolla's Salk Institute, published in Cell Reports, is described as the first to show B cells can regulate killer T cell function, opening potential new immunotherapy pathways for hard-to-treat cancers like triple-negative breast cancer.
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Salk Institute scientists published the first microprotein atlas of the human frontal cortex in Nature Aging, identifying 1,067 previously unknown microproteins and a potential link between one microprotein and immune-cell dysfunction in Alzheimer's disease.
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UC San Diego's $453 million, four-building Triton Center is set to hold its ribbon-cutting the weekend of Nov. 5, adding a health hub, 500-person event venue, alumni tower and administrative building to the La Jolla campus.
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A Salk Institute study published in Science Advances found that brief mitochondrial stress during mouse embryonic development protects the adult heart from chemotherapy-induced damage, tracing the mechanism to citrate-driven epigenetic changes that could point toward new aging therapies.
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Cassandra Vieten, director of research at UC San Diego's Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in La Jolla, published "Imagine That," a book arguing imagination is a trainable skill that can reduce anxiety and counter the cognitive effects of AI overuse.
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Twenty-four seniors from The Bishop's School, La Jolla Country Day School and La Jolla High School earned semifinalist status in the 2027 National Merit Scholarship Program, placing them among less than 1% of test-takers nationwide and in the running for a share of $24 million in scholarships.
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A Salk Institute study published in Nature Communications found that immune cells in the brain use TAM receptors to destroy living motor neurons in mice with ALS, a discovery that could open new treatment paths for the incurable disease.
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UC San Diego astronomy professor Adam Burgasser and alumna Genevive Bjorn published a Cambridge University Press guide introducing the CERIC Method, a five-step framework for critically reading scientific research papers.
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A National Bureau of Economic Research study finds California's later school start time law increased student sleep by 13% and boosted eighth-grade test scores, with La Jolla High and Muirlands Middle School among the first San Diego Unified campuses to adopt the change.