A $3M National Institutes of Health grant to three UC campuses will seek to improve survival rates for patients on dialysis.
Prolonging life for those on dialysis
Cross-border effort to vaccinate 10,000 maquiladora workers
UC San Diego Health is vaccinating about 1,500 workers daily at a mobile clinic in Baja California.
Feeling post-lockdown anxiety? We’ve got you covered.
Experts provide advice on navigating COVID-19 reopenings and webinars to boost your resiliency.
UC Berkeley will auction NFTs of Nobel Prize-winning inventions to fund research
Nonfungible tokens are all the rage, and now UC Berkeley is minting its own to raise money for research and education.
Nation’s first civility research center at UC San Diego to address juvenile justice reform
Their first project will study, evaluate and refine a national model of best practices to promote national criminal justice reform and reduce mass incarceration.
Can TV shows help with teen mental health?
A UCLA report suggests they can, but only when topics are approached in a credible, supportive way.
Amid historic drought conditions and a looming wildfire season in California, UC convenes wildfire research symposium
Join UC experts on Friday, June 4, 2021, from 8:00 a.m. to noon, for a free symposium on wildfire research.
A cellular culprit for Type 1 diabetes
Researchers have identified a predictive causal role for specific cell types in the condition, which affects more than 1.6 million Americans.
Genes that keep plants green: A discovery that can help us grow crops in a drought
Scientists have discovered genetic data that will help food crops like tomatoes and rice survive longer, more intense periods of drought on our warming planet.
Should businesses require vaccines? That’s fine, most California voters say
The new Berkeley IGS Poll finds powerful vaccine resistance among GOP voters, however.
The COVID vaccine came out super quickly. Here’s why it’s safe.
COVID vaccines arrived with historic speed, but the science behind it isn't new. Years of research put us in a position to deliver vaccines both fast and safely. Our UC expert explains how we got here.
Animals laugh, too
Sifting through studies on play behavior across species, researchers tracked vocalization patterns that show a strong similarity to human laughter.