Press Releases

Scholarship Opportunities Program helps prepare, screen applicants.

By discovering how adult neural stem cells navigate to injury sites in the central nervous system, UC Irvine researchers have helped solve a puzzle in the creation of stem cell-based treatments: How do these cells know where to go?

University efforts to combat problem include research, forensic center and geriatrics guide.

UC Irvine Medical Center’s organ donations and transplants topped all other Orange County hospitals in 2009.

UC Irvine scientists have created an eight-layer, early-stage retina from human embryonic stem cells, the first three-dimensional tissue structure to be made from stem cells.

Stress caused by psychological shock from the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, felt even by people with no direct link to the event, may have led to an increase in male children being miscarried in the U.S.

UCI scientists map the skies as they appeared 10 billion years ago and find that bright galaxies liked to cluster together.

A recent study authored by UC Irvine education professor and chair Deborah Lowe Vandell found that teens who had attended high-quality child care programs scored higher on academic and cognitive tests than their peers.

Ovarian cancer is the most deadly of the gynocological cancers. Dr. Leslie Randall will discuss risk reduction, symptoms, treatment and clinical trials.

Lawyers often overestimate their chances of success when predicting the outcomes of civil and criminal cases, reports a new study co-authored by UC Irvine psychologist and law professor Elizabeth Loftus.