Chancellor’s Professor Thomas Lane was our featured speaker during the fall 2020 Dean’s Distinguished Lecture. Learn about COVID-19, its impact on the central nervous system and the potential long-term side effects that accompany the virus.
Dunlop School Professor Featured in HuffPost Article on COVID-19 Risk Reduction
“Masking can prevent up to 70% of transmission, that’s basically as good as one dose of the vaccine,” says Professor Ilhem Messaoudi.
UCI scientists develop a new deep-learning framework that predicts gene regulation at the single-cell level
Qing Nie, Chancellor’s Professor of developmental and cell biology & mathematics, and Xiaohui Xie, professor of computer science, have led a team of UCI scientists to develop a new deep-learning framework that predicts gene regulation at the single-cell...
New insights from study of people age 90 and above
Six years ago, 60 Minutes reported on the 90+ Study with lead investigator Claudia Kawas, MD, Professor of Neurology and Neurobiology & Behavior. Last night, they followed up with the surviving members of the study.
UC researchers pioneer more effective method of blocking malaria transmission in mosquitoes
New CRISPR-based gene drive approach successfully overcomes issue of resistance in females
Cognitive Decline Distorts Political Choices, UCI-Led Study Says
Disconnect found between political affiliation, political decisions in the cognitively impaired
UCI Study Points to How Skin Cells Cooperate to Thwart Cancer
Findings reveal new information on melanoma development and insights into treatments.
Plastics, Pathogens and Baby formula: What’s in Your Shellfish? New UCI-led Study Finds Coastal Urbanization Increases Contamination in Seafood
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Assistant Professor Joleah Lamb and postdoctoral scholar Raechel Littman are collaborating with with other scientists and organizations to comprehensively examine contaminants in oysters in Myanmar. The findings are alarming, showing...
UCI Biologists Spearhead Creation of Microbiome Centers Consortium
From probing the ocean depths to deciphering human health mysteries, researchers across scientific disciplines are increasingly including microbiomes in their work. The Microbiome Centers Consortium has been launched by two University of California, Irvine School of Bioscience faculty members to advance growth in this life science field, increasingly recognized as relevant to many other disciplines and industrial applications.
Streaming the Tide of Alzheimer’s
Philanthropist on a mission to help others turns $150,000 into $20 million effort to fight disease at UCI MIND.