National Academy of Sciences names two UCI faculty members as fellows
Irvine, Calif., May 4, 2022 – Two University of California, Irvine researchers have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the world’s most respected scientific organizations....
View ArticleUCI team gets $970,000 NIH grant to launch interdisciplinary skin biology...
A team from the UCI Skin Biology Resource Center has been awarded a five-year, $970,000 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to launch an...
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A bird’s leg view
Monica Daley’s research literally has a leg up on the competition – so long as that leg is attached to turkeys, ostriches, pheasants, bobwhite quail, secretary birds or, most recently, guinea fowl....
View ArticleEntrepreneurship program expands to Vietnam
The Division of Undergraduate Education has developed a program in entrepreneurship for high school students called UCI X GATI Biology, Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Medicine/Machines...
View ArticleUCI-led team discovers signaling molecule that potently stimulates hair growth
Irvine, Calif., June 30, 2022 — University of California, Irvine-led researchers have discovered that a signaling molecule called SCUBE3 potently stimulates hair growth and may offer a therapeutic...
View ArticleSolving algorithm ‘amnesia’ reveals clues to how we learn
Irvine, Calif., July 6, 2022 — A discovery about how algorithms can learn and retain information more efficiently offers potential insight into the brain’s ability to absorb new knowledge. The...
View ArticleSeven UCI faculty members named Hellman Fellows for 2022-23
Irvine, Calif., July 8, 2022 — Seven assistant professors at UCI will receive Hellman Fellowships, which are bestowed annually to support research by junior faculty. They join an elite group of 70 UCI...
View ArticleHow a protein breaks free to cause deadly cancers
Irvine, Calif., July 18, 2022 – Better treatments for some of cancer’s deadliest forms could be closer due to a University of California, Irvine-led discovery about how a certain protein is activated...
View ArticleWhat gene changes and blood could tell us about the opioid crisis
Irvine, Calif., July 14, 2022 – The role of gene alterations resulting from childhood adversity in adults addicted to heroin and a search for blood tests to predict addiction vulnerability are part of...
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Troubled waters
The process is about as low-tech as it gets. Standing on the Newport Pier, Melissa Brock slings a plastic bucket tied to a rope over the side, drops it below the ocean surface to fill it with chilly...
View ArticleUCI biologists track DNA “parasites” in the hunt for disease treatments
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 23, 2022 — They are considered “parasitic genes.” Even though they comprise over half of human DNA, much remains to be learned about them. Now University of California, Irvine...
View ArticleUCI Alzheimer’s project wins $47 million grant from National Institute on Aging
Irvine, Calif., Sept. 21, 2022 — What began with a $70,000 philanthropic gift 12 years ago has grown into the recipient of a $47 million National Institute on Aging grant for Alzheimer’s disease...
View ArticleUCI study IDs what brings our senses and thoughts together
Irvine, Calif., Sept. 26, 2022 — Our ability to think, decide, remember recent events and more, comes from our brain’s neocortex. Now University of California, Irvine neuroscientists have discovered...
View ArticleAssociate Professor Deborah Lutterschmidt wins award for comparative...
The International Federation of Comparative Endocrinological Societies has awarded the Grace Evelyn Pickford Medal in Comparative Endocrinology to Deborah Lutterschmidt, UCI associate professor of...
View ArticleUCI researchers awarded $7.5 million for environmental justice initiative
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 5, 2022 – The National Science Foundation has awarded an interdisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California, Irvine $7.5 million for a project centering...
View ArticleEye-opening discovery about adult brain’s ability to recover vision
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 5, 2022 — A discovery about how some visually impaired adults could start to see offers a new vision of the brain’s possibilities. The finding that the adult brain has the...
View ArticleThree UCI scientists win NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 6, 2022 – Three University of California, Irvine scientists have been selected by the National Institutes of Health to receive NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards, bringing a...
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The great equalizer
In February, UCI announced the launch of the Institute for Precision Health. To veteran researchers like Suzanne Sandmeyer, professor of biological chemistry, it was a dream come true. “When I started...
View ArticleUCI Brain Camp taps into the teenage brain
For two weeks this summer, the halls and laboratories of the UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory buzzed with the energy of curiosity, creativity and community – the energy of Brain...
View ArticleUCI School of Biological Sciences to host lecture on Alzheimer’s
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 10, 2022 – On Tuesday, Nov. 15, five Alzheimer’s disease experts will convene at the Arnold & Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences & Engineering in...
View ArticleUCI’s Oswald Steward to serve as president of Society for Neuroscience
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 15, 2022 — The University of California, Irvine today announced that Oswald Steward, director of the campus’s Reeve-Irvine Research Center, will assume the role of president of...
View ArticleLethal cancer cells buddy up to survive
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 21, 2022 — Tumor cells in the most common pancreatic cancer share nutrients to live and grow. A new discovery by University of California, Irvine biologists and collaborators...
View ArticleControversial Alzheimer’s drug approval sparks surprising impact
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 29, 2022 — When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave controversial accelerated approval to the first Alzheimer’s drug in nearly 20 years, it had a surprising impact on...
View ArticleStudy finds how our brains turn into smarter disease fighters
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 30, 2023 — Combating Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases by inserting healthy new immune cells into the brain has taken a leap toward reality. Neuroscientists at the...
View ArticleAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science honors six UC Irvine...
Irvine, Calif., Jan. 31, 2023 — The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society, today announced the selection of six University of California,...
View ArticleUCI Podcast: The latest on Alzheimer’s disease
If you haven’t heard, there’s been big news recently about Alzheimer’s disease. Over the past year, the Food and Drug Administration has approved two new treatments that may slow the cognitive decline...
View ArticleHunting for cures to hair loss
Dissecting rat whiskers as a teenager led Maksim Plikus into baldness research. Seeing children devastated by severe hair loss spurred Dr. Natasha Mesinkovska’s quest for a remedy. Although they...
View ArticleStudy shows how to prevent a high-fat diet from throwing metabolism out of whack
Irvine, Calif., April 5, 2023 — Eating lots of fats increases the risk of metabolic disorders, but the mechanisms behind the problem have not been well understood. Now, University of California,...
View ArticleHallmarks to improving pancreatic cancer therapy identified by UCI researchers
Irvine, Calif., April 13, 2023 — Scientists from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Michigan and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have made a significant...
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UC Irvine biologists discover bees to be brew masters of the insect world
Irvine, Calif., April 20, 2023 — Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have made a remarkable discovery about cellophane bees – their microbiomes are some of the most fermentative known...
View ArticleUCI Podcast: Orange County high school students delve into cardiovascular...
Arash Kheradvar, UC Irvine professor of biomedical engineering, is co-principal investigator – along with Dr. Sandra Rugonyi at the Oregon Health and Science University – on a project to study...
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Getting a head start on healthcare
By Nick Schou, UCI With acceptance rates averaging around 5 percent, getting into a U.S. medical school can be challenging, and it’s fair to say that pre-med undergraduates don’t exactly have a lot of...
View Article#IamUCI – Luis Cuevas
It’s hard not to feel excitement when listening to Luis Cuevas talk about the scourge of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the promise of phage therapy in fighting these pathogens. His interest in...
View ArticleMeeting the environmental justice challenge
An interdisciplinary team of UCI graduate students has claimed the top prize in Phase 2 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental Justice Video Challenge for Students. Working with...
View ArticleUC Irvine neuroscientists develop ‘meta-cell’ to move Alzheimer’s fight forward
Irvine, Calif., June 13, 2023 –University of California, Irvine neuroscientists probing the gene changes behind Alzheimer’s disease have developed a process of making a “meta-cell” that overcomes the...
View ArticleQuinton Smith named 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biological Sciences
Quinton Smith, UC Irvine assistant professor in chemical and biomolecular engineering, has been named a 2023 Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences. The Pew Charitable Trusts supports outstanding...
View ArticleAnai Campos Contreras named 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical...
The Pew Charitable Trusts has named Anai Campos Contreras, incoming UC Irvine postdoctoral fellow in pharmacy and pharmaceutical sciences, a 2023 Pew Latin American Fellow in the Biomedical Sciences....
View ArticleStudy reveals potential breakthrough in grapevine disease resistance
Irvine, Calif., June 15, 2023 — A team of scientists – including UC Irvine’s Distinguished Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Brandon Gaut and UC Davis’ Professors of Viticulture &...
View ArticleUC Irvine-led researchers reveal new molecular mechanism for stimulating hair...
Irvine, Calif., June 21, 2023 — The process by which aged, or senescent, pigment-making cells in the skin cause significant growth of hair inside skin moles, called nevi, has been identified by a...
View ArticleUCI biologists to study COVID-19 link to Alzheimer’s
UCI biologists Kim Green and Tom Lane have been awarded $250,000 from the Alzheimer’s Association to assess how COVID-19 affects the onset and severity of Alzheimer’s disease. Decades of research...
View ArticleSweet smell of success: Simple fragrance method produces major memory boost
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 1, 2023 — When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. Participants in this study by University of...
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UC Irvine biologists find what colors a butterfly’s world
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 10, 2023 —As butterflies flit among flowers, they don’t all view blossoms the same way. In a phenomenon called sexually dimorphic vision, females of some butterfly species...
View ArticleThe secret life of bumblebees
Bees that build microbreweries, ride a miniature merry-go-round and possibly even wear diapers. In biologist Tobin Hammer’s UCI lab, all sorts of unusual projects unfold. Equipped with butterfly nets...
View Article3 UC Irvine professors garner $8.7 million in state support for climate...
Irvine, Calif., Aug. 23, 2023— Three University of California, Irvine researchers will receive more than $8 million in climate action grants to support projects that will help advance progress toward...
View ArticleUC Irvine leads regional project to reduce climate change risks in California
Irvine, Calif., Sept. 6, 2023 — A multidisciplinary team of researchers at the University of California, Irvine, in collaboration with cohorts from UC Riverside and UC San Diego, will lead a project...
View ArticleNSF funds UC Irvine project to improve climate science learning in high schools
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 30, 2023 – The National Science Foundation has awarded an interdisciplinary team from the University of California, Irvine a three-year, $1.6 million grant focused on creating an...
View ArticleUC Irvine advances stem cell research with $4 million CIRM grant for shared...
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 26, 2024 — The University of California, Irvine has received a five-year, $4 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a shared resources...
View ArticleStudy finds drought fuels invasive species after wildfires
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 28, 2024 — In a study recently published in the journal Ecology, University of California, Irvine scientists uncover the intricate dance between drought, wildfires and invasive...
View ArticleUC Irvine receives $15 million NSF grant for integrative movement research
Irvine, Calif. March 4, 2024 — The National Science Foundation has granted $15 million to the Integrative Movement Sciences Institute at the University of California, Irvine. This six-year funding,...
View ArticleUC Irvine-led study unlocks the secrets of birth defect origins
Irvine, Calif., March 21, 2024 – A new study led by the University of California, Irvine has revealed a potential shift in our basic knowledge of the origins of birth defects, which affect about 3...
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