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UC Newsroom |
‘Miracle’ medicine, based in federally funded science, arrived just in time to save his life
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UC Newsroom |
7 world-changing UC innovations that emerged from federal research funding
UC Riverside |
Botanist to study responses of trees, shrubs to extreme drought
UC Riverside professor receives National Science Foundation grant for research into survival mechanisms of plant species in California.
UC Merced |
UC Merced humanities center aims to bring depth to water issues
Research center's interdiscipolinary projects will focus on water for the next two years.
UC San Francisco |
UCSF Fresno marks 40 years of serving Central Valley
The campus is established as the largest provider of graduate medical education in the valley, where the population has grown faster than the number of doctors available.
UC Irvine |
Biomarker for autism may aid diagnostics
Fragile X syndrome, other genetic types of autism are flagged; study also points to potential new drug discoveries.
UC San Francisco |
Building human breast tissue, cell by cell
Zev Gartner's innovative work in 3-D tissue generation has earned him a spot on Popular Science's 'Brilliant 10' list of 2015.
UC San Diego |
Tiny motors rev up to tackle rising carbon dioxide levels
Machines much smaller than the width of a human hair could one day help clean up ocean pollution.
UC Berkeley |
Mobile app would bring earthquake early warning to all
How an early-warning system would work in practice, beginning with the first blaring alarm from a cellphone: 'Earthquake! Drop, cover and hold on! Strong shaking expected!'
UC Newsroom |
First-generation students hear from faculty who have ‘been there’
As thousands of first-generation college students arrive on campus, UC Irvine faculty are helping them feel a sense of belonging by sharing their own experiences as being their family's first collegians.
UC Riverside |
Secret unlocked to rice seed survival when underwater
UC Riverside geneticists are members of international research team that identified AG1, a gene that controls sugar availability.
UC Davis |
Premium-minded consumers split wine market, wine execs say
Survey of wine executives to be reported Sept. 22; wine professionals also surveyed.
UC Berkeley |
What the Inuit can tell us about omega-3 fats and paleo diets
The Inuit and their Siberian ancestors have special genetic mutations that help them partly counteract the effects of a diet high in marine mammal fat — and most of us don't.
UC Newsroom |
New York Times calls UC an ‘upward-mobility machine’
Six campuses in top seven spots of College Access Index, which ranks economic diversity.