Sharp increases in the price of jet fuel and growing concerns about sustainability have spurred demand for greener, more efficient aircraft, and UCI researchers could help shape the future of commercial aeronautics.
October 24, 2008
UC Irvine is a hot spot for systems biology, a new approach to learning why the human body and other organisms work the way they do.
October 20, 2008
Digital money or currency - a broad term describing any technology providing access to or even replacing traditional functions of money - is not limited to developing countries.
October 20, 2008
The immune system is the body's military force, assigned to protect against disease and infection. But sometimes, the T cells and B cells that carry out this vital mission turn against their host and mistakenly attack healthy tissue in a process called autoimmunity.
October 20, 2008
Experts on everything from reconstructing the human hand to interpreting the U.S. Constitution have joined the UC Irvine faculty in the last year.
October 13, 2008
Toxins in food often have a bad, bitter taste that makes people want to spit them out. It's one way the body defends itself.
October 9, 2008
It's been a busy few weeks for Rafael L. Bras, the new dean of UC Irvine's Henry Samueli School of Engineering.
October 6, 2008
UCI is ramping up its focus on air quality and climate change research in an effort to tackle some of today's most pressing environmental challenges.
September 29, 2008
UC Irvine biologists are on the attack against leukemia. A recent study by UCI scientists found a new way to combat a subtype of acute lymphoblastic leukemia that could mitigate side effects and improve cure rates.
September 22, 2008
More than 180,000 American women are diagnosed with breast cancer each year, and no single event brings attention to this deadly disease more than the Race for the Cure, sponsored by Susan G. Komen for the Cure.
September 22, 2008