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UCI vector biologist Anthony James and colleagues have developed a genetically modified insect model blocking transmission of the disease – and it may also work on Zika

National Institute on Aging grants $4.7 million to Dr. Ira Lott’s research team

Grant supports Chang Liu’s work to engineer a synthetic genetic system

Study also points to potential new drug discovery advances

Center unites multidisciplinary experts in drug discovery effort

A fluorescent green limb pokes outward from a cell wall under a high-powered microscope. The filament is loaded with VP40, an essential protein in the Ebola virus. The microscope is capturing it budding out in real time. It’s followed by another and another. Those green protrusions may be the means by which the deadly virus […]

UCI team uses novel technique to track key protein in deadly virus

Irvine, Calif., July 31, 2014 — Much of the liver’s metabolic function is governed by circadian rhythms – our own body clock – and UC Irvine researchers have now found two independent mechanisms by which this occurs. The study, published online today in Cell, reveals new information about the body clock’s sway over metabolism and […]

UC Irvine study of plant compound’s effectiveness against bladder malignancies has yielded promising results

With computer ‘break-ins’ growing in sophistication and number, UC Irvine researchers work to foil future attacks