UCI mouse study finds significant improvements in both motor and cognitive function
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Making a foreign country feel like home
Alumnus Lester Ng helps international students thrive at UCI with contribution through the university’s $1 billion Shaping the Future campaign
UCI’s $1 billion Shaping the Future campaign helps research move from labs to beaches, forests and beyond
A proponent of citizen science, UCI graduate student Tera Dornfeld enlists students, area residents in conservation fieldwork
Dirty, Crusty Meals Fit for (Long-Dormant) Microbes
Biocrust’s microbes lie dormant for long periods until precipitation (such as a sudden downpour) awakens them. Understanding more about the interactions between the microbial communities—also called “microbiomes”—in the biocrusts and their adaptations to their harsh environments could provide important clues to help shed light on the roles of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle.
UCI researchers find biomarker for autism that may aid diagnostics
Study also points to potential new drug discovery advances
Time-Lapse Analysis Offers New Look at How Cells Repair DNA Damage
Time-lapse imaging can make complicated processes easier to grasp. Berkeley Lab scientists are using a similar approach to study how cells repair DNA damage. Microscopy images are acquired about every thirty minutes over a span of up to two days, and the resulting sequence of images shows ever-changing hotspots inside cells where DNA is under repair.
Hot, dry and human-caused
UCI and other scientists say Californians must learn to live within the state’s new climate
Cellular Contamination Pathway for Plutonium, Other Heavy Elements, Identified
Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have reported a major advance in understanding the biological chemistry of radioactive metals, opening up new avenues of research into strategies for remedial action in the event of possible human exposure to nuclear contaminants.
New Mathematics Advances the Frontier of Macromolecular Imaging
A comprehensive understanding of complex nanostructures—like proteins and viruses—could lead to breakthroughs in some of the most challenging problems in biology and medicine. But because these objects are a thousand times smaller than the width of human hair, scientists can’t directly see into them to determine their shape and function.
Atomic View of Microtubules
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers produced an atomic view of microtubules that enabled them to identify the crucial role played by a family of end-binding proteins in regulating microtubule dynamic instability, the physical property that enables microtubules to play a crucial role in cell division.
