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Sep 02, 2026 | UC Irvine News
Stopping Chronic Pain Before it Starts
UC Irvine researchers find that after an injury, support cells are temporarily rewired to trigger nerve cells to produce sticky beta-amyloid protein fragments best known for their role in Alzheimer’s disease.
Aug 27, 2026 | UC Irvine News
New Data Infrastructure Award to Help Scientific Communities Build Domain-Specific Platforms for Collaborative Data Science and AI
Researchers at UC Irvine, UCLA and the University of Michigan have received nearly $9 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation to establish a new data infrastructure capability that will help scientific communities across the nation use advanced data science and artificial intelligence tools.
Aug 20, 2026 | UC Irvine News
Math and Medicine Join Forces to Solve a Cancer Mystery
UC Irvine scientists uncover a key cause of immunotherapy failure – and a path to overcoming it.
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A UC Irvine study provides evidence that dietary sugar intake in the form of fructose is a key culprit affecting how the body — in particular, the small intestine — handles other nutrients like fat.
Undergraduate students from Historically Black Colleges/Universities (HBCUs) in North Carolina, Alabama and Washington, D.C. spent their summer in Southern California, conducting biomedical research and gaining clinical exposure at UC Irvine.
Jessica Yih, MD, has a message leading up to World Sexual Health Day as she responds to this year’s central question: “Whose bodies are sexual health systems built for — and whose are left out?”
Sep 01, 2026 | Women's Health
What Doctors Want You to Know About the New 'Personalized' Cancer Vaccine Making Headlines
According to Philip Felgner, PhD, a DNA and mRNA-based vaccine development expert at UC Irvine, “This is the first large phase 3 study to demonstrate meaningful clinical benefit from an individualized mRNA cancer vaccine."
Sep 01, 2026 | Knowridge
Damaged Blood Cells May Trigger Tiny Brain Bleeds
Scientists have discovered a possible new cause of tiny areas of bleeding in the brain. … The study was led by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, including Dr. Mark Fisher and Dr. Xiangmin Xu. Their findings were published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation.