Biological Sciences

Monica Daley studies avian ground movement to help people with mobility issues

A team from the UCI Skin Biology Resource Center has been awarded a five-year, $970,000 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to launch an interdisciplinary skin biology training program. Designed to develop the next generation of interdisciplinary research physicians and scientist leaders in academia and industry, the program takes advantage […]

Mathematician Svetlana Jitomirskaya, vision researcher Krzysztof Palczewski honored

They join 35 others from UCI in the prestigious organization

Campus leads the way in environmental stewardship of the planet

Neurobiologist Ian Smith will lead campus effort to create new cell lines for research

UCI researchers have originated a simplified, faster clinical sample testing method to detect genetic material, including viral RNA. Their findings were recently published in the journal Scientific Reports. “We showed that a saliva sample withdrawn using a simple microbiological loop can be directly analyzed in a single collection tube, using common and precise DNA amplification […]

Second year biochemistry student finds many inspirations to pursue a career in STEM

UCI professor of developmental and cell biology seeks answers to how genes are regulated

International team designs energy-efficient robot with bird-inspired locomotion