Biological Sciences

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

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

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 […]

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UCI scientist uses bioluminescence to shed light on multicellular interactions

The U.S. Department of Energy recently awarded a UCI research team $3 million over three years to explore how drought affects microbes in surface soil that are vital to plant life and to the exchange of carbon dioxide – a greenhouse gas – among the Earth’s oceans, plants, soil and air. Steven Allison, associate professor of […]

UCI study finds that microcins help block illness-causing bacteria in inflamed intestines

UCI MIND takes multipronged approach to finding preventions, cures in effort to avert baby-boom crisis

Innovative teachers shake up traditional lectures to engage students and improve learning

University of California, Irvine professors Anne Calof and Arthur Lander were honored as the 2016 Champions of Hope in science by Global Genes, a rare disease patient advocacy charity, at its fifth annual Tribute to Champions of Hope gala on Sept. 24. Calof and Lander are among the world’s leading researchers on Cornelia de Lange Syndrome, […]