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UCI team develops simplified, faster process for detection of viral RNA in...
UCI researchers have originated a simplified, faster clinical sample testing method to detect genetic material, including viral RNA. Their findings were recently published in the journal Scientific...
View ArticleUCI has skin in the lab-grown meat game
Sometime in the not-too-distant future, when grocery stores and restaurants offer lab-grown or cultivated meat options, we might have UCI biologists, in part, to thank. Cellular agriculture, which...
View ArticleEarth Week events at UCI
UCI has always held Earth Day special. The university’s history of environmental stewardship dates back to the Nobel Prize-winning research by chemistry professor F. Sherwood Rowland into the...
View ArticleFour professors elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Irvine, Calif., April 28, 2022 — A quartet of professors at the University of California, Irvine, has been elected as members by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The 242nd class of AAAS...
View ArticleNational 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...
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