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UCI researcher receives NIH Transformational Research Award

October 6, 2020 sarah Jonas Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Cancer, Chemistry, Innovation, Machine Learning

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 6, 2020 — University of California, Irvine biomedical engineer Chang Liu is the recipient of one of nine Director’s Transformative Research Awards this year from the National Institutes of Health under its High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, the agency announced today. Liu’s five-year, $8.4 million grant will support a project to develop a system for making antibody generation a routine and widely accessible process.

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FAU’s ‘Fantastic Four’ Researchers Receive Prestigious NSF CAREER Awards

August 6, 2020 sarah Jonas Alzheimer's Disease, Biological Sciences, Career Award, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Health, Marine animals, National Science Foundation

Four FAU researchers have received the coveted NSF Early Career (CAREER) award for research to develop a low-cost, disposable point-of-care platform to detect current and emerging infectious diseases; for a cognitive screening tool for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease using wearables and a smartphone; for mathematical tools and new ways of coding to enhance cybersecurity; and to better understand how marine animals tune, or dynamically adjust their movements using their skin and skeletons.

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No evidence that predator control will save mountain caribou, study says

July 14, 2020 sarah Jonas Biological Sciences, Wildlife

Addressing potential threats from predators has not slowed the dramatic decline of mountain caribou in British Columbia and Alberta, according to a new study by scientists from the University of Alberta and two other western Canadian universities.

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New View on How Tissues Flow in the Embryo

May 29, 2020 sarah Jonas Biological Sciences, Biophysics, Computational Biology, Developmental Biology

Watching and measuring what happens in tissues inside the human embryo is currently not possible, and it’s difficult to do in mammalian models. Because humans and the fruit fly Drosophila share so many biological similarities, Columbia Engineering and Syracuse University researchers tackled this problem by focusing on fruit flies. The team reports today that they can predict when the tissue will begin to rapidly flow just by looking at cell shapes in the tissue.

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Scientists Develop New Way to Identify the Sex of Sea Turtle Hatchlings

April 7, 2020 sarah Jonas Biological Sciences, Biology, Climate Change, Conservation, global warming, Marine Science, Marine Turtles, Minimally Invasive, Sea Turtles, Sex Ratios, Threatened and endangered species

Scientists have developed a new minimally invasive technique that greatly enhances the ability to measure neonate turtle sex ratios. This is the first time that differences in sex-specific protein expression patterns have been identified in blood samples of hatchlings with temperature-dependent sex determination. The technique is a crucial step in assessing the impact of climate change on imperiled turtle species and will enable more accurate estimates of hatchling sex ratios at a population level and on a global scale.

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UTEP Introduces Bachelor’s Degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

January 28, 2020 sarah Jonas 0 Comments Biological Sciences, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Science Education, UTEP

The new degree is the campus’ latest effort in an ongoing mission of providing competitive academic and research opportunities at one of the most reasonable prices for a U.S. top tier university.

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UCI biologists spearhead creation of Microbiome Centers Consortium

December 23, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments BIOCHEMISTRY, Biological Sciences, Ecology, Microbiome

Irvine, Calif., Dec. 23, 2019 — From probing the ocean depths to deciphering human health mysteries, researchers across scientific disciplines are increasingly including microbiomes in their work. The Microbiome Centers Consortium has been launched by two University of California, Irvine School of Bioscience faculty members to advance growth in this life science field, increasingly recognized as relevant to many other disciplines and industrial applications.