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Jul 01, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
UCI researchers to join national effort to build atlas of human breast cells
University of California, Irvine researchers will help lead an unprecedented national effort to document the intricate cell types and states in breast tissue that underlie cancer. Compilation of the Human Breast Cell Atlas will be supported by a $4 million Seed Network grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Jun 27, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
Researchers discover new way to discriminate between mutations responsible for promoting cancer growth and those that are not
Until now, researchers believed recurrent mutations (hotspot mutations) in cancer tumors were the important mutations (driver mutations) that promoted cancer progression. A new University of California, Irvine-led study indicates this is not always true.
May 30, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
UCI research helps shed new light on circadian clocks
Body parts respond to day and night independently from brain, studies show
May 22, 2019
NEW STUDY SHOWS CROWDSOURCED TRAFFIC DATA COULD SAVE LIVES APPUSERS POST CRASH ALERTS MINUTES BEFORE THEY ARE REPORTED TO CHP
A new University of California, Irvine-led pilot study finds, on average, Waze "crash alerts" occur two minutes and 41 seconds prior to their corresponding California Highway Patrol (CHP)-reported crash. These minutes could mean the difference between life and death.
May 22, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
NEW STUDY SHOWS CROWDSOURCED TRAFFIC DATA COULD SAVE LIVES APP-USERS POST CRASH ALERTS MINUTES BEFORE THEY ARE REPORTED TO CHP
May 13, 2019 | UCI News
Study touts new method to reduce cognitive side effects of brain cancer radiation treatment
In hopeful news for brain cancer patients, researchers from UCI led by Charles Limoli, PhD, in collaboration with investigators from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland, have discovered how an experimental technology called FLASH radiotherapy dramatically reduces the adverse cognitive side effects unleashed by traditional radiation treatments.
Apr 23, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
John Christian “Chris” Fox, MD, appointed chair of the UCI School of Medicine Department of Emergency Medicine
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine John Christian “Chris” Fox, MD, has been appointed chair of the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, effective immediately. He served as interim chair since 2017.
Apr 22, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
UCI to establish skin biology, diseases resource center with $4 million NIH award
With nearly $4 million in funding from the National Institute of Arthritis & Musculoskeletal & Skin Diseases, the University of California, Irvine will establish the UCI Skin Biology Resource-based Center.
Apr 18, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
New UCI-led study defines when is the best time to exercise to get the most rejuvenating results
A new study led by researchers from the University of California, Irvine finds exercising in the morning, rather than at night, may yield better results.
Apr 11, 2019 | UCI School of Medicine
UCI-led research team catalogs mitochondria deletions in the human brain using a single test
In a recent University of California, Irvine-led study published in Nucleic Acids Research, a team of scientists described a catalog of 4489 putative mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions, including their frequency and relative read rate. This catalog comprises the first comprehensive database of mitochondrial deletions derived from human brain.