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NIH funding supports continued research into early-life origins of mental disorders

About 2 million people in the U.S. suffer from a mysterious illness known as myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome. One of the challenges healthcare professionals have faced in diagnosing it has been the lack of a clear biomarker, something in a patient’s bloodstream to signal the cause of the problem. Researchers at UCI and […]

Novel findings may further understanding of age-related dementia

Climate change-induced melting will raise global sea levels for decades to come

To make better predictions about future wildfires around the world, climate scientists want to know the prevalence and intensity of past outbreaks. For a study published recently in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Melinda Nicewonger, a UCI graduate student in Earth system science, examined ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica to measure changes […]

Corn farmers in the U.S. have seen a fivefold increase in crop yields since the 1940s. Advances in farm technology have largely been credited for the production boost, but a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by UCI, University of Minnesota and Harvard University researchers shows that climate change […]

One-degree rise in global winter temps to cause less high country snow accumulation

Even mild physical activity immediately improves memory function, UCI-led study finds

UCI, other researchers use machine learning to improve accuracy of climate prediction models

Problems more frequent in low-income, rural areas of the nation