Biological Sciences

With its 100 billion neurons connected in a sprawling and complex network, the human brain offers many challenges to scientists hoping to comprehend its structure. For a study published recently in Nature Communications, researchers at UCI, the University of Minnesota and other institutions employed an abstract geometric concept known as “network curvature” to elucidate the conduits […]

Co-hosted by UCI MIND, the 30th Annual Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Research Conference will share recent discoveries

Aided by a scholarship, UCI senior Joshua Torosyan mentors, tutors and volunteers

Philanthropist on a mission to help others turns $150,000 into $20 million effort to fight disease at UCI MIND

Discovery of TOM-1 protein role heralds new directions in the disease fight

Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center seeks to demystify its work with public lecture series, open houses

With fellowship support, Stacy Ann Suarez Cham is pursuing her goal of a Ph.D. in ecology & evolutionary biology

For future biomedical researcher, undergraduate scholarship was vote of confidence

Microorganisms’ reaction to drought could hold clue to surviving climate change

UCI study finds absence of microglia prevents plaque formation