Genetic switch for circadian rhythms discovered
University of California, Irvine researchers have identified the chemical switch that triggers the genetic mechanism regulating our internal body clock.
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National Endowment for the Arts recognizes MFA fiction writing student
Dave Morris, a graduate student in UCI’s MFA fiction writing program, has won a $25,000 Literature Fellowship from the National…
By design
English professor Julia Lupton’s lively career has all the action of a Shakespearean drama
Up to half of hypertension patients are not reaching blood pressure goals
Nearly three-fourths of American adults with coronary heart disease, stroke, diabetes or other conditions that raise the risk for cardiovascular complications also have high blood pressure, according to a University of California, Irvine study. The report, which appears in the Dec. 24 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine, also notes that although 75 percent […]
School of Medicine to break ground on state-of-the-art telemedicine center
Medicine in the future won’t be limited to the hospital setting. Emerging digital technologies are creating a field called telemedicine, which is helping bridge one of the largest gaps in healthcare today – access to high-level, specialized care for people who live in rural or remote areas. To help accelerate this evolution, the University of […]
Herbal extract found to increase lifespan
The herbal extract of a yellow-flowered mountain plant indigenous to the Arctic regions of Europe and Asia increased the lifespan…
Greater parental guidance suggested for noisy toy use
Irvine, Calif., December 4, 2007 The High School Musical Rockerz Jammin Guitar and the Cheetah Girls In Concert Collection Doll may be what kids want most this holiday season, but if parents aren’t careful about how these and other popular toys are used, a season of joy might turn into a lifetime of hearing loss […]
Jafari receives distinguished teaching award from Academic Senate
Mahtab Jafari, assistant professor of pharmaceutical sciences at UC Irvine, was named the 2007-08 recipient of the Distinguished Assistant Professor…
Study shows how embryos regulate vitamin A derivatives
Human embryos that get too much or too little retinoic acid, a derivative of vitamin A, can develop into babies…
Nursing a vision
A conversation with nursing science director Ellen Olshansky