UC Santa Barbara |
The Big Bee Project brings natural history collections into the 21st century
UC Santa Barbara wraps up the Big Bee Project, a pioneering, multicampus initiative to bring natural history collections into the century of AI, big data and networked databases.
UC Riverside |
How plants stop growing to survive stress
A retired scientist’s persistence reveals insight to boost farm yields.
UC Davis |
Global strategies to protect seals and sea lions from avian influenza
A new study steps back to look at the overall impact of the virus on pinnipeds worldwide and offers recommendations for moving forward to monitor, characterize risk and build resilience in the affected species. It also suggests ways to help prevent the virus from reaching currently unaffected but vulnerable pinniped species.
UC San Francisco |
Scientists create cancer-fighting immune cells right in the body
A new form of CAR T kills leukemia, multiple myeloma, and sarcoma in mice, opening the door to a future off-the-shelf cancer treatment without chemotherapy.
UC Riverside |
Data center water spikes could cost billions
Study recommends technology companies expand water capacity to offset their use and preserve community supplies.
UC Davis |
Study improves understanding of food safety risks in California Central Coast produce
Environmental study with the FDA, UC Davis Western Center for Food Safety, CDFA and partners examined pathogen movement through the region.
UC Irvine |
A closer look at heart health
UC Irvine researchers uncover important differences in common heart valve narrowing condition, bringing hope for more precise care.
UC Irvine |
Antarctica has lost 10 times the size of Greater Los Angeles in ice over 30 years
A UC Irvine-led study used international and commercial satellites to measure glaciers and found more than three-quarters of Antarctica’s coast-reaching glaciers to be stable, with the other quarter undergoing aggressive melting.
UC Berkeley |
UC Berkeley’s Blue and Gold satellites are now flying through Earth’s magnetotail — a first
Launched to Mars in November, NASA’s ESCAPADE probes — operated by UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Lab — are now testing their instruments in a never-before-visited region of Earth's magnetic field.
UC Irvine |
A laser focus on melanoma
Mihaela Balu and her team have developed a skin scanner that can better detect early signs of deadly cancer.
UC San Diego |
From Rett and Pitt-Hopkins to ALS: 5 rare diseases UC San Diego researchers are tackling in the lab
Researchers at the Sanford Stem Cell Institute have taken the fight against rare diseases to the lab, to patients’ bedsides and even to outer space.
UC Irvine |
Widening beaches make California 500 acres bigger than it was 40 years ago
UC Irvine and USGS researchers used satellites to track coastal changes.