Scientist’s Curiosity Inspires Her Children’s Gift

Scientist’s Curiosity Inspires Her Children’s Gift

It is one thing to cherish the memories of loved ones. It is another thing to keep their spirit alive by sharing their character and values with others so they can continue to impact more lives. That is exactly what daughter Paris Mowlavi Torkamani and son Zubin...

Dunlop School Connection Yields Growth

Dunlop School Connection Yields Growth

The UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences is home to talented faculty researchers and scientists who work to solve a whole host of problems facing society. Some of the solutions they’ve created are so groundbreaking that they have the potential to be...

Ford Foundation Sunsets Diversity Fellowships

Ford Foundation Sunsets Diversity Fellowships

The Ford Foundation’s fellowship program, a half century–old effort to bring racial and ethnic diversity to US academic institutions by supporting select scholars, is ending, according to a statement issued earlier this month.

UCI study IDs what brings our senses and thoughts together

UCI study IDs what brings our senses and thoughts together

Our ability to think, decide, remember recent events and more, comes from our brain’s neocortex. Now University of California, Irvine neuroscientists have discovered key aspects of the mechanisms behind these functions.

How to Make Lab Research More Successful for Humans

How to Make Lab Research More Successful for Humans

Why do many treatments that work in animal models fail in people? In his new book, Neurobiology and Behavior professor Georg Striedter says researchers sometimes unwittingly set the stage for defeat by overlooking species differences when designing their studies. To...

A Pair’s Power to Combat Disease

A Pair’s Power to Combat Disease

When it comes to fighting deadly cancers, as well as chronic infections such as HIV and hepatitis B, C, two is better than one. That’s the finding published by the laboratory of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry assistant professor Dr. Roberto Tinoco. In...

What gene changes and blood could tell us about the opioid crisis

What gene changes and blood could tell us about the opioid crisis

UCI Scientists Win $3.5 Million Grant for Bold Addiction Research Irvine, Calif., July 18, 2022 -The role of gene alterations resulting from childhood  adversity in adults addicted to heroin and a search for blood tests to predict addiction vulnerability are part...