UC Davis |

Looking for romance? That first impression matters

First impressions of compatibility and popularity stick with us, study suggests.
UC Irvine |

Eye-opening discovery about adult brain’s ability to recover vision

UC Irvine team demonstrates the adult brain has the potential to partially recover from inherited blindness.
UC San Diego |

UC San Diego launches new Human Milk Institute

Scientists hope to create a global hub for understanding and accelerating knowledge and application of human milk.
UC Berkeley Haas |

Study: Stereotypes of middle-aged women as less ‘nice’ can hold them back at work

Even as they achieve more power and capability on the job, middle-aged women can be held back by a perceived lack of “niceness,” new research finds.
UC San Francisco |

Small-molecule drug reverses neural effects of concussion

UCSF researchers rescue cognitive function by blocking molecular stress response.
UC Santa Barbara |

A healing space: Supporting racially-informed therapy training

A Santa Barbara Foundation grant underscores the community need for racially-informed therapy services.
UC San Diego |

What I’ve learned as a breast cancer survivor

During October’s Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a breast cancer survivor and UC San Diego Health employee shares her personal experiences from the moment of diagnosis and receiving life-saving care, to the important lessons she has learned along the journey.
UC Berkeley Haas |

Depressed people are just more realistic, right? Not so, says UC Berkeley study

Depressive realism has held sway in science and popular culture for decades, but a rosier outlook may be overdue.
UC San Francisco |

Video games offer the potential of ‘experiential medicine’

After a decade of work, scientists at UC San Francisco’s Neuroscape Center have developed a suite of video game interventions that improve key aspects of cognition in aging adults.
UC Davis Health |

World’s first stem cell treatment for spina bifida delivered during fetal surgery

Groundbreaking trial aims to reverse the paralysis and other abnormal functions of spina bifida before birth.
UC Santa Cruz |

Partnership across UC campuses will prepare the next generation of leaders in organic agriculture

A grant of more than $700,000 from the USDA will support a UC collaboration to improve and expand undergraduate education in organic agriculture, with an emphasis on supporting underrepresented students.
UC San Diego |

Why are prescription drugs so expensive? It’s not necessarily high R&D, new study shows

Pharmaceutical companies claim they need to charge high drug prices to recover the costs of research and development, but researchers found no link between the two.