Eye-opening discovery about adult brain’s ability to recover vision
UCI team demonstrates the adult brain has the potential to partially recover from inherited blindness
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UCI chemists receive $25 million in Department of Energy funding
Researchers will explore new technologies for energy conversion, carbon capture and nuclear power
Chemistry faculty launch antiviral research project
Scientists combine their diverse skills in collaborative effort to hobble COVID-19
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Grad student’s year away from UCI results in plutonium science breakthrough
UCI opens doctoral programs to hundreds more students
Campus aims to boost Ph.D. candidates by 35 percent over next five years
Human neural stem cells restore cognitive functions impaired by chemotherapy
UCI study reveals how they alleviate ‘chemobrain’ after cancer treatments
Bruce Blumberg part of team behind new safety system for chemical design
A groundbreaking study involving Bruce Blumberg, UCI professor of developmental & cell biology, outlines a safety testing system that helps chemists design inherently safer chemicals and processes.
UC Irvine opens clinical trial of novel treatment for brain cancer
Experiemental vaccines hold promise to slow the return of glioblastoma multiforme. UC Irvine begins enrolling patients in DCVax trial.
Boosting natural marijuana-like brain chemicals treats fragile X syndrome symptoms
UC Irvine and European scientists have found that increasing natural marijuana-like chemicals in the brain can help correct behavioral issues related to fragile X syndrome, the most common known genetic cause of autism.
UCI researchers find cause of chemotherapy resistance in melanoma
Researchers with UC Irvine’s Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a genetic pathway in melanoma cells that inhibits the cellular mechanism for detecting DNA damage wrought by chemotherapy, thereby building up tolerance to cancer-killing drugs.