UCI and Harvard researchers team up to produce innovative Web site

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UCI launches effort to develop patient-specific stem cell lines

UC Irvine neurobiologist Hans Keirstead and his research team today launched a project to develop stem cell lines that genetically match human patients. These lines would allow scientists to better study conditions ranging from diabetes to Parkinson’s disease, and they would provide the basis for potential patient-specific stem cell treatments. Keirstead will use a technique […]

UC Irvine launches effort to develop patient-specific stem cell lines

UC Irvine neurobiologist Hans Keirstead and his research team launched a project Monday, May 14, to develop stem cell lines…

Outsider looking in

Exploring the tiniest of places, geneticist Douglas Wallace is onto something really big

No small feat

UCI’s nanotechnology breakthroughs are tiny but critical steps toward improved health care, communications

Green with pride

David Mejia keeps the grounds well-groomed

A good life

In the work of evolutionary biologist and ordained priest Francisco Ayala, science and religion have found a peaceful coexistence

Mixed blessing

Despite his ambivalence about how it’s being marketed, the co-creator of the Lyme disease vaccine sees exciting possibilities in the unique way it works

Revealing rhythms

Pierre Baldi uses math – and music – to help transform reams of research data into biological breakthroughs

Navigator to facilitator

Suzanne Rivera ensures studies meet safeguards