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UC Irvine Uncovers Hidden Genetic Causes of Disease: New tool accelerates discovery of disease-causing DNA mutations

Jan 6, 2025

From left: Assistant Professor Evgeny Kvon,...

Charlie Dunlop is among the OC Register’s 125 most influential people in OC for 2024

Dec 23, 2024

Read more about how Charlie Dunlop reshaped Orange County’s academic research landscape with a $50 million unrestricted gift to BioSci.

Seagrass Cuts Disease in Seaweed Farms: UC Irvine Study Reveals a Natural Way to Boost Aquaculture yields

Dec 16, 2024

Irvine, Calif., December 16, 2024 — In a new...

Bird-inspired leg enables robots to jump into flight

Dec 5, 2024

Professor Monica Daley is a co-author and biology contributor for this Nature paper on RAVEN: a bird-inspired multi-modal robot that uses its legs to propel itself for take-off for flight.

UC Irvine Discovery Offers Hope for Neurodegenerative Diseases: Dendrite injury triggers protective regrowth, hinting at new treatment pathways

Dec 2, 2024

In a new study recently published in Scientific Reports, researchers at the UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences have identified a novel way to potentially protect nerve cells in neurodegenerative diseases, opening new possibilities for future treatments.

UCI Scientists Unveil New Clues to Alzheimer’s Disease Through Innovative Brain Analysis

Nov 22, 2024

To better understand the complex genetic and molecular underpinnings of AD in both its sporadic and genetic forms, researchers from the UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences and the UC Irvine School of Medicine conducted groundbreaking research recently published in Nature Genetics.