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A UC Irvine study has found that a gene called TOMM40 appears twice as often in people with Alzheimer’s disease than in those without it. Alzheimer’s, for which there is no cure, is the leading cause of elderly dementia.

Marketing professor Connie Pechmann targets adolescent tobacco use.

An educational research team will head into California County schools this fall to see if visual software deepens understanding of mathematical concepts.

Books by UC Irvine faculty suit all tastes.

John Hipp, assistant professor of criminology, law & society, studies the impact of demographic changes in Orange County.

All too often, a stethoscope and a doctor’s touch are still the primary tools for diagnosing emergency-room patients. UC Irvine physician Chris Fox aims to change that. Rather than feeling for a broken bone or swollen abdomen or merely listening to the heart, Fox has trained UC Irvine Medical Center’s emergency department clinicians to use the latest in lightweight, high-resolution […]

Variations in how people perceive colors and how those same colors appear on TV, computers and other media have confounded…

Colors reproduced on Web sites or printed photos never seem as true as what we see in real life, and now one UC Irvine professor explains why.

Dame Wendy Hall, computer science professor at the University of Southampton in England, will address “What’s Next for the Web?” in a lecture sponsored by UC Irvine’s Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences.

When it comes to fake guns, a little common sense and a knowledge of campus policy goes a long way, says UC Irvine Police Chief Paul Henisey.