Biological Sciences

Lethal cancer cells buddy up to survive

UCI-led team’s finding could help improve treatments for pancreatic cancer

Oswald Steward

UCI’s Oswald Steward to serve as president of Society for Neuroscience

Director of Reeve-Irvine Research Center is fourth faculty member to hold prestigious post

microscopic image of cells

UCI School of Biological Sciences to host lecture on Alzheimer’s

Five experts will discuss past, present and future of the disease

High school students capture images of their specimens during Brain Camp’s visit to the Thompson-Peer lab.

UCI Brain Camp taps into the teenage brain

Middle and high school students share experiences in the neurosciences

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The great equalizer

UCI Institute for Precision Health heralds a “new era in healthcare”

Three UCI scientists win NIH Director’s New Innovator Awards

High-Risk, High-Reward grants will support biomedical research projects

Sunil Gandhi (right) and Carey Huh (left)

Eye-opening discovery about adult brain’s ability to recover vision

UCI team demonstrates the adult brain has the potential to partially recover from inherited blindness

UCI researchers awarded $7.5 million for environmental justice initiative

NSF funding will support diversification, community engagement in Earth system science

Associate Professor Deborah Lutterschmidt wins award for comparative endocrinology

The International Federation of Comparative Endocrinological Societies has awarded the Grace Evelyn Pickford Medal in Comparative Endocrinology to Deborah Lutterschmidt, UCI associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology. Given just once every four years, the honor recognizes the achievements of early-to-mid-career comparative endocrinologists. Lutterschmidt accepted the award in early September during a joint conference of […]

UCI study IDs what brings our senses and thoughts together

Neuroscientists discover process behind brain’s high-level work