Biological Sciences

Women's History Month collage featuring: (top left to right: Katrine Whiteson, Sunny Jiang, Joleah Lamb; (bottom left to right) Karen Lincoln, Aomawa Shields, Luiza Osorio Silva and Roxane Cohen Silver.

Profiles of excellence

For Women’s History Month, UC Irvine salutes its influential researchers

Diego Pizzagalli, head of UC Irvine’s Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries.

Demystifying depression

Founding director of collaborative research institute is eager to make a difference

Third-year microbiology and immunology student Ritwik Kumar researches bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria, not human cells.

An antibiotic alternative

In first at UC Irvine, undergrad will use bacteriophages to treat patients with resistant infections

Maksim Plikus (right), UC Irvine professor of developmental and cell biology, shown here with Raul Ramos, a postdoctoral researcher in the Plikus laboratory.

UC Irvine-led discovery of new skeletal tissue advances regenerative medicine potential

‘Lipocartilage’ properties akin to bubbled packaging material – super-stable, soft, springy

UC Irvine scientists design bioluminescent RNA

The “RNA lanterns” promise to reveal secrets of viruses and human memory

Nataly Campos, left, and Kathy Duong are co-presidents of the Anteater Smile Project.

Spreading smiles

UC Irvine student group provides oral health education and dental hygiene kits to low-income communities

Year in Review collage

2024: A year in motion

Looking back at UC Irvine’s transformative impact

UC Irvine Podcast Indicator

The UCI Podcast: Directing biomedical evolution

Chang Liu’s Science study outlines improvements to the gene evolution system his lab developed

Smell loss linked to 100-plus diseases in new UC Irvine study

Research shows scent therapy may reduce inflammation and boost health

Joleah Lamb, UC Irvine assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, standing on a beach in front of the ocean.

Sea change

Joleah Lamb finds reasons to be optimistic about our relationship with oceans