Professor Timothy J. Bradley, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, worked alongside Gregory Yanega, Academic Coordinator for the Salton Sea Initiative, three other scientists and three graduate students traveled to the Borrego Springs Schools to meet with approximately...

How tissue and organ sizes are specified is one of the great unsolved mysteries in biology. Recently, Donald Bren Professor Arthur D. Lander, Developmental and Cell Biology, conducted research that sheds some light on how tissue and organ size are controlled. Working...

Despite a century of research with chromosomes (bearers of genes), the organization of genes at the chromosomal level continues to puzzle researchers. One of the organizational aspects of chromosomes that remains poorly understood, is the formation of functionally...

A sold out crowd of nearly 400 attended the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture on March 5, on Regeneration – Patter – Stem Cells” featuring Professor Susan V. Bryant, Developmental and Cell Biology and former Dean of the Biological Sciences School. Professor Bryant’s...

Biological Sciences School alumnae Jasmine Jefferson will never forget her undergraduate animal physiology research. “Have you ever thought about how hard it is to train a Savannah monitor lizard to run on a treadmill?” she joked. “It actually isn’t too hard, but they...

The Hawaiian Islands have long been known as a hot spot for evolution and more recently, as one of the extinction capitals of the world. Professors Ann Sakai and Stephen Weller, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, have used Schiedea, a Hawaiian plant group...

Recent studies on how hormone-disrupting chemicals are being linked to serious health problems, have gained the attention of several national publications. National Geographic highlighted a series of recent studies which found that exposure to hormone-disrupting...

Scientists are creating new treatments in hopes to find new ways to prevent, stop, and slow Alzheimer’s, a disease that is an underlying cause of 500,000 deaths a year. Through collaborative research and technological advances, researchers and scientists have been...

More than 250 undergraduate students recently attended the Biological Sciences School of Biological Sciences’ Second Annual Pre-Pharmacy Day with the Pre-Pharmacy Society student organization. More than 350 UCI students and alumni apply annually to pharmacy programs...

Discovery of Gomafu function increases understanding of its role in psychiatric disease Irvine, Calif., Feb. 25, 2015 — U.S. and Australian scientists have found the mechanism a novel gene uses to affect brain function and elicit behavior related to neuropsychiatric...