UC San Francisco |
Next-generation genomic tests ID brain-eating amoeba
New center aims to make tests more affordable and accessible to doctors.
UC Santa Cruz |
Tearing down the walls
Pioneering professors and staff at the fledgeling UC Santa Cruz campus challenged convention and traditional academics — helping to reform American higher education.
UCLA |
UCLA students write book about how deportation hurts families
Student-written book, 'Dreams Deported,' is a project of a UCLA labor studies minor class and third in a series on immigration and the immigrant youth movement.
UC Newsroom |
UC luminaries to receive National Humanities Medal
Food activist and scholars are among 10 honored for their work elevating the human experience.
UC Food Observer |
Q&A: Mark Lipson on organics
For more than three decades, Lipson has been intimately involved with the organic movement; he has recently returned to his roots at UC Santa Cruz, serving as a research associate with UCSC’s Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems.
UC Berkeley |
Alumni startup’s digital stethoscope green-lighted by FDA
Federal clearance sets the stage for unlimited clinical use of the tool by Eko Devices, a Skydeck accelerator-nurtured business.
UCLA |
Promising new treatment for deadliest form of brain cancer
Method combines chemotherapy drug with adoptive cell transfer, in which a patient’s own immune cells are reprogrammed to target the disease.
UC Newsroom |
UC campuses ranked high for entrepreneurship
AffordableSchools.net named five UC campuses to its top 50 Most Entrepreneurial Schools in America.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab |
Solar cells absorb light at 30X the concentration of conventional cells
New solar cells absorb high-energy light at 30 times the concentration of conventional cells.
UC Santa Barbara |
Rainforest Cowboys
UC Santa Barbara anthropologist explores cattle raising, deforestation and ongoing tensions between conservation and development in the Amazon.
UCLA |
Completely paralyzed man voluntarily moves his legs
Robotic step training and noninvasive spinal stimulation enable patient to take thousands of steps.
UCLA |
First evidence of how obstructive sleep apnea damages the brain
The disorder contributes to a breakdown of the blood–brain barrier, which protects brain tissue.