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Sniffing our way to better health

New scent-based therapy can delay disease; has implications also for agricultural production
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Vaping can increase susceptibility to infection by SARS-CoV-2

UC Riverside study urges e-cigarette users to be cautious about vaping in the era of COVID-19
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Fight against malaria takes a step forward

Identification of RNA-binding proteins using R-DeeP reveals new drug targets
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

The early bird (or scientist) gets the worm

Size does not matter. Certainly not when it comes to tiny worms securing the attention of biologists. One such biologist, Morris F. Maduro at the University of California, Riverside, has just been awarded a grant of nearly $1.3 million from the National Science Foundation, or NSF, to study a worm (or nematode) about a millimeter...
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

2023 ‘Highly Cited’ list celebrates UCR faculty influence

Prue Talbot , a professor of cell biology (cross field category). Talbot's laboratory is focused on tobacco-related diseases, electronic cigarettes, stem cell biology, and video bioinformatics. She has been on the list every year since 2020.
By JULES BERNSTEIN |

Findings challenge standard understanding of COVID-19 infection

UC Riverside research can help scientists develop methods to prevent COVID-19 in mink and other species
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Scientists tame biological trigger of deadly Huntington’s disease

New hope for other nervous system disorders like ALS
By JULES BERNSTEIN |

How did a fly species gain sole access to a fruit in the Seychelles?

A UC Riverside-led study offers an answer
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

UCR joins new regenerative medicine consortium

By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Grant to postdoc will increase understanding of how e-cigarettes affect human health

Esther Omaiye, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology at UC Riverside, has been awarded a three-year, postdoctoral grant exceeding $305,000 from the University of California’s Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, or TRDRP, to investigate how ratios of solvents and chemical mixtures in e-cigarettes influence their toxicity.
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

New approach to fighting malaria

UC Riverside-led study zeroes in on special RNA molecules in the human malaria parasite
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Study examines salt taste in flies

UC Riverside research uncovers mechanism that reduces intake of harmful levels of salt
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Widely consumed vegetable oil leads to an unhealthy gut

UC Riverside-led mouse study reports diets high in soybean oil decrease endocannabinoids in the gut and can lead to colitis
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Blog highlights Riverside’s outdoor public art

David Eastmond’s explorations of the city on his bicycle bore fruit during the pandemic
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Brain Awareness Day helps shape young minds

More than 300 local elementary, middle, and high school students visited UC Riverside for Brain Awareness Day on Friday, April 28, touring campus labs and joining hands-on experiments to learn neuroscience.
By UCR NEWS |

Researchers warn of tick-borne disease babesiosis

UC Riverside and Yale University team sequences and mines genome of the pathogen Babesia duncani
By IQBAL PITTALWALA |

Cutaneous chronic wounds: A worldwide silent epidemic

Chronic wounds develop due to the defective regulation of one or more of the complex cellular and molecular processes involved in proper healing. Here Manuela Martins-Green explores novel potential treatments for wound chronicity

Underrepresented STEM student mentorship grant renewed

The Career Mentoring of Underrepresented STEM Students for the Professoriate (CUSP) program at the UC Riverside College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) received a $350,000 renewal grant for the next five years.
By CNAS |

The Graduate Program in Neuroscience is proud to announce the Ph.D. Dissertation Defense of Manali Dey

Title: "To Eat or Not to Eat: The Complex Mechanisms of Dietary Preferences in Drosophilids"
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