More than 650,000 people aged 65 and older are living with Alzheimer’s disease in California. This number is projected to more than double by the year 2040. Hispanic/Latine and Black communities will see a disproportionate tripling in prevalence1. Genetic factors do...
Meet Celine Crooks, a fourth-year student at the UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological Sciences, who is pursuing her passion for medicine. Long before she was in her final year as an undergraduate, however, Crooks admits she did not know about UCI until she...
Frank LaFerla has been reappointed to an additional five-year term as Dean of the School of Biological Sciences, beginning July 1.
A recent study published in the Journal of Virology by a team from the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry that includes Assistant Professor Roberto Tinoco, graduate student Julia DeRogatis and co-authors from the Tinoco lab, and Assistant Professor...
Scientists at the University of California, Irvine have made a remarkable discovery about cellophane bees – their microbiomes are some of the most fermentative known from the insect world.
Cell study offers Insights offer hope for better outcomes
Eating lots of fats increases the risk of metabolic disorders, but the mechanisms behind the problem have not been well understood. Now, University of California, Irvine biologists have made a key finding about how to ward off harmful effects caused by a high-fat diet. Their study appears in Nature Communications.
Mammalian flight is an incredible ability that has evolved in many different species, including bats, flying squirrels and several types of possums. Interestingly, each of these flying species has evolved a lateral flight membrane, known as a patagium, between...
As the Earth's climate continues to change, natural resource managers are faced with the challenge of forecasting how populations will respond to these changes. There are a variety of different forecasting approaches, ranging from complex process-based models that...
Scientists at the UCI MODEL-AD group have developed a new mouse model that could help us understand Alzheimer's disease better. The mouse model is called Trem2R47H NSS, and it has a genetic variant called TREM2 R47H that is one of the strongest known risk factors for...