UC Santa Cruz |
Persistence yields progress in AIDS vaccine research
Veteran researcher has developed a new approach based on an old vaccine and recent advances in HIV immunology.
UCLA |
Which is most valuable: gold, cocaine or rhino horn?
The answer is devastating news for Earth’s largest animals.
UC Davis |
Deep brain stimulation tested as treatment for cognitive changes in Parkinson's
Parkinson’s disease profoundly affects learning and memory as it progresses, and there currently are no good treatments for these aspects of the disease.
UC San Diego |
Biology students join hundreds of undergrads to co-author paper
Fruit fly genomics project included more than 900 students nationwide doing original research.
UC Davis |
Gender differences in the autistic brain
Girls with autism show distinct differences in their brains and behavior, compared with autistic boys and with normally developing girls.
Slate |
Why waitresses put up with sexual harassment
Rock-bottom earnings all but guarantee a climate in which food servers put up with harassment just to eke out a living. UC Berkeley's Saru Jayaraman is trying to change that.
UCLA |
Finding strategies to recruit, retain women, minorities as computer majors
Tech companies are funding research to find strategies to recruit and retain women and minorities in computer science majors.
UC Santa Cruz |
Astronomers set a new distance record for galaxies
Astronomers discover a bright galaxy more than 13 billion light years from Earth — the most distant known, dating back to when the universe was just 5 percent of its current age.
UC Berkeley |
Soil depletion threatens global food security
If trajectory does not change, soil erosion, combined with effects of climate change, will present huge risk to global food security over next century, soil scientists at UC Berkeley and UC Merced warn.
UC Irvine via The Conversation |
Teens without smartphones encounter a new digital divide
Low-income teens are unable to participate in the social media conversations of their wealthier peers — pointing to deeper forms of digital inequity.
UC Berkeley |
Scientists begin monitoring tremors on San Andreas Fault
Borehole seismometers will monitor faint tremors beneath the San Andreas Fault — part of UC Berkeley’s TremorScope project to determine the link between tremors and earthquakes.
UC Irvine |
FDA greenlights clinical trial of treatment for blinding disease
Novel retinitis pigmentosa therapy has been created by stem cell researchers.