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UC Newsroom |

Critical research hangs in the balance as UC faces unprecedented federal threats

Explore some of the research happening at UC that’s poised to deliver transformative benefits to the American people.

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UC Newsroom |

12 foods you couldn’t live without — brought to you by the University of California

Across university farms and labs, and in partnership with growers and ranchers around the state, research from the University of California is at the root of the nation’s abundance.

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UC Irvine for The Conversation |

A teaching moment in the Ashley Madison hack

Why did people make their personal information so easily available to a company that facilitates cheating?
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California Magazine |

High-tech project will restore recorded Native American voices

Cutting-edge optical scanning technique developed by the Berkeley Lab promises to revitalize these old, fragile recordings. 
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Gladstone Institutes |

HIV particles don't cause AIDS — our own immune cells do

Virus turns host immune cells into suicide machines, using them to spread the virus and cause the progression from infection to disease.
UC Newsroom |

NIH grants to help turn discoveries into medical advances

UC Irvine, UC San Diego receive renewed Clinical and Translational Science Awards.
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UC Merced |

UC Merced enters second decade poised for growth

UC’s newest campus approaches its 10th anniversary with record student enrollment, ambitious plans for expansion, and a spirit of determination.
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UC San Diego |

Gift will launch Scripps climate center

$5M gift will seed Center for Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation.
Barley is one of the world's most important cereal crops.
UC Riverside |

Sequencing of barley genome achieves new milestone

A mainly UC Riverside group of researchers improves a resource used worldwide.
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UC San Diego |

3-D printed tiny fish do more than swim

Synthetic microfish set the stage for 'smart' microrobots that can detoxify or deliver medications. 
UC ANR |

Drought tips available for farmers

To help farmers make the best use of the water they have available, a series of new and updated drought tips fact sheets has been developed by UC Agriculture and Natural Resources scientists and funded by the California Department of Water Resources.  
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UC Newsroom |

UC dominates Washington Monthly's college rankings

UC San Diego tops assessment of contributions to the public interest for sixth-straight year and six UC campuses make top 20.
UC Santa Cruz alumnus Mark Lipson, who chaired the Organic Working Group at the U.S. Department of Agriculture from 2010 to 2014, with some of the dry-framed tomatoes grown at Molino Creek Farm.
UC Santa Cruz |

Farm to label: How alumnus helped bring organic labeling policy to the nation

Mark Lipson's career has taken him from Santa Cruz to Washington, D.C., and back again, now as a research associate with UC Santa Cruz's Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.
Entrepreneur Michael Landa, a UCLA Anderson School of Management alumnus, and his Labrador retriever
UCLA |

It's a dog's life — but better

Pet leads UCLA Anderson grad to idea for business that sells nutritious food for dogs and cats.