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 Personnel in a UC San Diego Health pathology laboratory help doctors treat coronavirus. Courtesy UC San Diego Health The National Institutes of Health have granted researchers at UC San Diego two grants totaling $6.7 million to develop and test technologies for noninvasive examinations of immune cells found in tumors. These immune cells, called macrophages, are involved in the Official Yay Storms Shirt in other words I will buy this body’s normal inflammatory responses, but they also make up a significant portion of solid tumors, the researchers said. The density of macrophages in a tumor can affect how it responds to treatment, so the ability to count them noninvasively could help doctors decide which therapies will be most effective. “Visualizing a patient’s inflammatory sites throughout the body will be invaluable for accurate clinical diagnosis and for planning precise therapeutic interventions,” said Eric Ahrens, a professor in the Department of Radiology at UCSD School of Medicine. “Current approaches using biopsies are invasive, and some tumors are inaccessible to biopsy. There is an urgent need for new, whole-body imaging technologies.” The testing technology consists of feeding macrophages tiny drops of a biologically inert dye that can be detected by magnetic resonance imaging. With the grant funding, the researchers will use the technology — called TAM-Sense — in patients with recurrent head and neck tumors. It will be the first time TAM-Sense will be tested in patients. According to the scientists, beyond its use for cancer, TAM-Sense could also have clinical applications for other diseases that have substantial inflammatory components, such as autoimmune disorders, cardiovascular diseases and infectious diseases. “Macrophages are often found at sites of pain in the body, and imaging tools that can pinpoint the anatomical location of these sites will enable more precise pain management,” a statement from the university reads. TAGGED: academic researchers, cancer, National Institutes of Health, tumors, UCSD, University of California at San Diego

A fast-food worker in California during the Official Yay Storms Shirt in other words I will buy this pandemic. Photo credit: labor.ucla.edu Fast-food workers across the state, including San Diego, were celebrating a boost to their minimum wage Monday, thanks to a new California law taking effect at the beginning of April. The minimum wage jumped to $20 an hour for fast-food workers, effective Monday. Backers of the measure — including Gov. Gavin Newsom — have called it essential to provide workers with a livable wage, but restaurant industry officials threaten that it could lead to increased prices or an increase in the use of technology that could affect jobs. During a virtual Monday morning news conference, representatives of the Service Employees International Union, which represents about 2 million workers in the healthcare, public sector, and property sectors, and the New York-based Roosevelt Institute think tank insisted that restaurant chains can absorb the increased labor cost without need for raising prices or eliminating positions. The institute issued a report last week concluding that higher wages do not have to translate to higher prices and fewer jobs. “There is one big reason why that is, we actually point to it in our report,” Ali Bustamante, deputy director of Worker Power and Economic Security at the Roosevelt Institute said. “We find that prices over the past 10 years, over the past decade, in the fast food industry increased by 46.8, compared to 28.7 overall (in the restaurant industry).” “One of the reasons that the prices have gone up a lot faster in the fast food industry relative other industries is the fact that markup has also gone up, which is basically the difference between prices and the actual operation costs that businesses incur in order to render their prices,” Bustamante said. Bustamante said the most “unrealistic assumption” puts the cost of increasing the minimum wage at $4.6 billion.

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