UC Research and Innovation

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Lisa Minniefield

3D “Assembloid” Shows How SARS-CoV-2 Infects Brain Cells

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Scott LaFee | UC San Diego | July 16, 2021 Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic Medicine have produced a stem cell model that demonstrates a potential route of entry of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, into the human brain. The findings are published in the July 9, 2021 online issue ... Continue Reading »

Engineering Professor Awarded NASA Grant to Study Impacts of Wildfires on California’s Coastline

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Elizabeth Arakelian | UC Merced | July 20, 2021 California is known for its beautiful coastline, where the Pacific Ocean meets sandy beaches and rugged cliffs. While many scientists have studied the land or the ocean independently, less is known about the nexus of the two. Now with the help of a $750,000 award from NASA, civil and environmental engineering Professor Erin ... Continue Reading »

Smokers Light Up More Cigarettes Following California COVID-19 Lockdown Order, Study Finds

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By: Juan Flores, UC Merced | May 27, 2021 The fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has been felt around the world. COVID-19's grip has affected people's mental health and sense of what was once normal, prompting them to turn to new and familiar behaviors to help cope. According to a new study published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and ... Continue Reading »

Lichens Slow to Return After Wildfire

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By: Kat Kerlin, UC Davis | May 10, 2021 ichen communities may take decades — and in some cases up to a century — to fully return to chaparral ecosystems after wildfire, finds a study from the University of California, Davis, and Stanford University. The study, published today in the journal Diversity and Distributions, is the most comprehensive to date of long-term ... Continue Reading »

Law students’ research helps shape California wildfires bill

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By: Daniel Melling UC Los Angeles | June 3, 2021 ith the effects of climate change increasing across California, state legislators are exploring new policies to better protect communities – and UCLA law students in the California Environmental Legislation and Policy Clinic are helping. Last fall, six students in the clinic worked alongside legislators and their ... Continue Reading »

If Countries Implement Paris Pledges with Cuts to Aerosols, Millions of Lives can be Saved

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By: Christine Clark, UC San Diego | June 1, 2021 Aerosol reductions that would take place as countries meet climate goals could contribute to global cooling and prevent more than one million annual premature deaths over a decade, according to a new study from the University of California San Diego. The landmark Paris Agreement of 2016 does not address emissions ... Continue Reading »

‘Cool Walls’ Get a Boost from U.S. Green Building Council

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By: Julie Chao, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | May 18, 2021 Sunlight-reflecting “cool walls” have been shown to reduce energy costs by lowering heat gain in buildings. But they do more – reflective walls can also cool cities, fighting the urban heat island effect. The concept has new support from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), which has issued a pilot ... Continue Reading »

Embracing diversity – one dental student at a time

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By: Brianna Aldrich, UC Los Angeles | May 13, 2021 For UCLA dental students Isaiah “Izzy” Sampson and Ryan Davis, entering the dental field was, in a word, perplexing. Growing up in several different states, Sampson never saw a Black person in his family’s dentist offices. Not the dentists, the hygienists or even the office staff. As he started thinking about ... Continue Reading »