UCLA Health |
Given 2 years to live, a patient with colorectal cancer gets his life back through a clinical trial, leading-edge technology
Regular screening, beginning at age 45, is the key to catching colorectal cancer early.
UC Newsroom |
The 10 best research stories of 2021
Cutting-edge discoveries from space to sickle cell.
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 Davis |
Chew on this: Personalized health care for mountain gorillas
Chewed plants are helping Gorilla Doctors and UC Davis veterinarians provide personalized health care to wild, endangered mountain gorillas in East Africa.
UC Newsroom |
Six UC alums awarded 2022 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ fellowships
Fellows are selected for their exceptional talent and creativity — and the promise of even greater things to come.
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.
UCLA |
Driving high? Chemists make strides toward a marijuana breath analyzer
By oxidizing THC to create an electric current, a UCLA team’s fuel cell sensor can reveal the presence of the drug.
UC Berkeley |
Could this new process finally turn polyethylene bags, plastics into something useful?
A promising new method for breaking down plastic would finally allow us to do something useful with hard-to-recycle waste.
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.
UC Davis |
Revealing the genome of the common ancestor of all mammals
Every modern mammal is descended from a common ancestor that lived about 180 million years ago. We don’t know a great deal about this animal, but the organization of its genome has now been computationally reconstructed by an international team of researchers.
UC Office of the President |
UC announces recipients of inaugural Regents Foster Youth Award
The University of California awarded two foster youth students the inaugural Regents Foster Youth Award. William Carter, a UC Berkeley Ph.D. student, and Mary Tran, a UCLA law student, were presented with their awards by UC President Michael V. Drake, M.D., and UC Regents Chair Richard Leib at a meeting of the UC Board of Regents at UC San Diego.
Berkeley Lab |
Print, recycle, repeat: Scientists demonstrate a biodegradable printed circuit
The breakthrough could divert wearable devices and other flexible electronics from the landfill.