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UC Irvine has been awarded $1.62 million to lead a University of California program on development of nontoxic alternatives to…

University of California, Irvine researchers have identified the chemical switch that triggers the genetic mechanism regulating our internal body clock.

Nearly three-fourths of American adults with coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes or other conditions that raise the risk for cardiovascular complications also have high blood pressure, according to a University of California, Irvine study. The report, which appears in the Dec. 24 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, also notes that although 75 percent […]

Medicine in the future won’t be limited to the hospital setting. Emerging digital technologies are creating a field called telemedicine, which is helping bridge one of the largest gaps in healthcare today – access to high-level, specialized care for people who live in rural or remote areas. To help accelerate this evolution, the University of […]

The herbal extract of a yellow-flowered mountain plant indigenous to the Arctic regions of Europe and Asia increased the lifespan…

Irvine, Calif., December 4, 2007 The High School Musical Rockerz Jammin Guitar and the Cheetah Girls In Concert Collection Doll may be what kids want most this holiday season, but if parents aren’t careful about how these and other popular toys are used, a season of joy might turn into a lifetime of hearing loss […]

Human embryos that get too much or too little retinoic acid, a derivative of vitamin A, can develop into babies…

UC Irvine’s ninth annual Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellows Series kicks off this month with a talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh…

New UC Irvine research is among the first to demonstrate that neural stem cells may help to restore memory after…

A $2 million endowed gift from Henry and Susan Samueli will establish an exchange program between engineering students…