Biological Sciences

UCI study sheds light on regulation of hair growth across the entire body

Findings point to new ways of addressing human baldness, unwanted hair

Cultivating the next generation of scientists

UCI’s Project CRYSTAL integrates classroom and outdoor learning experiences

Basis of ‘leaky’ brain blood vessels in Huntington’s disease identified

UCI-led stem cell study points to new treatments for this fatal disorder

UCI establishes Malaria Initiative to fight deadly disease in Africa

Acclaimed vector biologist Anthony James will lead multi-campus effort

4 students in Minority Science Programs snag research awards at annual meeting of AAAS

Four UCI undergraduates participating in the Francisco J. Ayala School of Biological Sciences’ Minority Science Programs received awards for their research presentations in the poster competition at the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences’ 2017 annual meeting, in Boston. AAAS is the world’s largest general scientific society. The research poster competition is open to undergraduate and […]

3 UCI biologists are elected by the Ecological Society of America as 2017 fellows

Three faculty members in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology have been named 2017 fellows of the Ecological Society of America, the world’s largest community of professional ecologists, in recognition of their contributions to the field. Professor Travis Huxman was cited for advancing our understanding of plant ecophysiology, with fundamental work on the ecology […]

Ali Mortazavi to share $10 million in NIH funding for critical genome mapping

The National Institutes of Health is expanding its effort to create a fundamental genomics resource for scientific use in studying human health and disease. And through its Encyclopedia of DNA Elements Project, UCI assistant professor of developmental & cell biology Ali Mortazavi will share $10 million in grant funding over four years with the California Institute of Technology […]

UCI-Penn study in Science reveals natural process for scar-free wound healing

Targeting body’s skin regeneration responses could also have anti-aging applications

By the numbers: 1.1 billion reasons to feel good about 2016

It was a year of firsts … and a year of records

Study quantifies global soil carbon loss due to warming

UCI biologists Steven Allison and Kathleen Treseder are part of a Yale-led global study appearing in Nature that says global warming will drive the loss of at least 55 trillion kilograms of carbon from the Earth’s soil by midcentury, or about 17 percent more than the projected emissions due to human-related activities during that period. This would be roughly the […]