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Heading Off Brain Injuries
An alligator researcher, a crash test dummy and an ex-Boston Red Sox medic join forces to unravel the mystery of water polo concussions
Nature-Inspired Nanotubes That Assemble Themselves, With Precision
Scientists have discovered a family of nature-inspired polymers that, when placed in water, spontaneously assemble into hollow crystalline nanotubes. What’s more, the nanotubes can be tuned to all have the same diameter of between five and ten nanometers.
Unlocking the Secrets of Gene Expression
Using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist Eva Nogales and her team have made a significant breakthrough in our understanding of how our molecular machinery finds the right DNA to copy, showing with unprecedented detail the role of a powerhouse transcription factor known as TFIID.
Listen up Sacramento: Grad students add value
UCI’s Julius Edson joins fellow graduate students for advocacy day in Sacramento to describe how he’s building a better bug trap
Stopping malaria … one mosquito at a time
UCI vector biologist Anthony James and colleagues have developed a genetically modified insect model blocking transmission of the disease – and it may also work on Zika
Even plant-supporting soil fungi affected by global warming, UCI study finds
Ecologically rich mountain cloud forests impacted by drying climate
Blocking inflammation prevents cell death, improves memory in Alzheimer’s disease
UCI mouse study points to new treatments to limit effects of neurological disorder
