Olga Ospina highlights Professor Anandasankar Ray, a insect neuroscientist who studies how insects can detect smells in their environment using different scents that react with their brain.
Andrew Huang, a biomedical sciences graduate student at UC Riverside, has been awarded a one-year American Epilepsy Society Predoctoral Research Fellowship.
A University of California, Riverside, study has found that dermal exposure to nicotine concentrations found in thirdhand smoke, or THS, and electronic cigarette spills may damage the skin.
Doctoral student Elena Kozlova has received a $25,000 grant from the food and beverage company Danone North America to explore how the gut microbiome, probiotics, and yogurt help support and maintain human health and wellness.
Congratulations!!!! Dr. Martins-Green, for being selected as a faculty recipient of the 2021-22 Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement.
Yuqi Ma, a doctoral student in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology, is the first recipient of an award of $10,000 from the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, or CNAS, made possible by a gift from the Leonard Family Foundation.
For her research excellence and science leadership, Karine Le Roch, the director of the Center for Infectious Diseases and Vector Biology and a professor of molecular, cell and systems biology at UC Riverside, has been awarded the 2021 IIGB Natasha V. Raikhel Award in Research Innovation and Science Leadership.
Scientists from UC Riverside are studying how the popular keto and intermittent fasting diets work on a molecular level, and whether both sexes benefit from them equally.
Of the world’s scientist population, those included in Clarivate Analytics’ Highly Cited Researchers annual list are 1 in 1,000. This year, UC Riverside is home to eight of these influential individuals.
Epilepsy and autism spectrum disorders, or ASD, show a remarkable degree of comorbidity and may share pathological mechanisms. Questions that have bogged down scientists about these disorders include: Does autism lead to an increase in epilepsy? Or does epilepsy alter the brain circuit, which then leads to autism?
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers, or PBDEs, are a class of fire-retardant chemicals that are ubiquitous. They are found on upholstery, carpets, curtains, electronics, and even infant products. Flame retardants migrate out of products into dust that humans contact and can ingest. Considered to be global environmental pollutants, they have been detected in water, soil, air, food...
The skin of electronic cigarette, or EC, users can come into direct contact with refill fluids through leakage and spills as well as the touching of surfaces that have EC-exhaled aerosol residue, or ECEAR. Nonusers are not spared this risk either for they may be passively exposed, via the skin, when occupying indoor environments with...
What can the fruit fly teach us about taste and how chemicals cause our taste buds to recognize sweet, sour, bitter, umami, and salty tastes? Quite a lot, according to University of California, Riverside, researchers who have published a study exploring the insect’s sense of taste. Tweet.
Undergraduate students are recognized for their achievements and future career plans Shayan Saeed: He starts as a fourth year Middle East and Islamic studies student this fall. For the past two years he has been conducting research in the lab of Manuela Martins-Green lab in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Systems Biology.
