Research

UCI researchers also find that shared reading of books, print or digital, boosts literacy

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

Life-changing undergraduate opportunity lets students explore, invent and experiment with everything from robotic coats to a video game of the human digestive tract

Research to focus on effects of maternal experiences, environmental factors

Trend is most pronounced among the better-educated, UCI study finds

Improved Earth system models paint bleak climate change picture

Study authors recommend policies to lessen stressful employment conditions

Neuroscientists at University of California, Irvine have discovered a molecular signaling mechanism that translates visual impairments into functional changes in brain circuit connections. The discovery may help to develop novel therapeutic drugs to treat the childhood visual disorder amblyopia and other neurodevelopment disorders. Xiangmin Xu, Todd Holmes and Sunil Gandhi conducted the study, which appears […]

UCI’s Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics has received a five-year, $7.2 million operating grant from the National Institutes of Health, marking 30 years of NIH funding for the lab. The LFD is a state-of-the-art facility that allows researchers to use fluorescence with advanced imaging technologies (microscopy and spectroscopy) to view live cells and study cellular processes. This can […]

Taking and sharing smartphone photos boosts positive feelings