Month: February 2014

The National Academy of Engineering has announced the election of UC Irvine’s Said Elghobashi to membership.

In a new study, UC Irvine microbiologist Manuela Raffatellu has found that our immune response can sometimes make us vulnerable to the very bacteria it’s supposed to protect us from.

Douglas Haynes is a scholar of British history, fan of the TV series and award-winning champion of equity in faculty hiring

Just as humans decide how much of their wealth to spend versus passing it on to their children, stem cells may divide and re-create based on whether it’s more important for them to conserve their genetic identity or pass along a portion of other, nongenetic information to the next generation, according to a paper published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bruce McNaughton, one of the foremost experts on the brain mechanisms underlying memory storage and cognition, has joined the UC Irvine School of Biological Sciences as a Distinguished Professor of neurobiology & behavior.

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