Professor Aimee Edinger, Developmental and Cell Biology, received the Breast Cancer Research Program Breakthrough Award from the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (Department of Defense).
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How do the basics of what goes on in our tissues during normal development give us a better understanding of what happens when things go awry in the malignant disease state? In this clip, Arthur…
On October 27, 2014, the Irvine Division of the Academic Senate of the University of California announced the winners of its 2014-2015 Distinguished Faculty Awards. Two Biological Sciences School Faculty were named as recipients including…
The Sha Sun lab visited fifth-grade students at Brywood Elementary School and extracted DNA from strawberries on June 5 in an hourlong project to teach students how it is tightly packed and protected within each…
By discovering a new mechanism that allows blood to enter the brain immediately after stroke, researchers from UC Irvine and the Salk Institute reveal a means to create new therapies that may reduce or prevent…
The Science Case Network, a newly established Research Coordination Network for Undergraduate Biology Education, centers on expanding the use of and knowledge about two effective teaching approaches: case studies and problem based learning (PBL). Dr….
With a new $2.5 M grant from NINDS, O’Dowd’s lab will study genetic epilepsies associated with mutations in the SCN1A sodium channel gene. There are literally hundreds of mutations in this gene that result in…
Dr. Schutte a postdoc in the O’Dowd lab was awarded a fellowship from the CIRM training grant to conduct functional studies of iPSC-derived neurons from patients with genetic epilepsy with febriles seizures plus (GEFS+)…