Science & Tech

UCSB Scientists Discover Mechanism to Change the Destiny of Embryonic Cells

UCSB researchers in the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology have recently discovered a mechanism by which embryonic cells decide to become specific cell types in adult humans. ...
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Examining the Biology Behind the Popular Culture Phenomenon

Unless you’ve been under a rock, you should be familiar with the zombie apocalypse hype these past few years. Shows and movies such as “The Walking Dead” and I Am Legend depict flesh-eating mons...
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UCSB Theoretical Physicist Receives Packard Fellowship

An assistant professor in the Department of Physics here at UC Santa Barbara has been awarded the Packard Fellowship for his research into discovering states of matter. Cenke Xu, a theoretical physici...
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Why The Foods You Love Could Be Causing Serious Health Problems

Bread, beer, cake, cereal, cookies, donuts, pancakes, pizza and spaghetti. Are you hungry yet? What do all these things have in common? The answer is not only that they’re all pretty yummy human cre...
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UCSB Scientist Leads National Research Team in Sustainable Chemistry Investigation

Head investigator Peter C. Ford and a team of researchers from the University of Washington at St. Louis, University of California at Santa Barbara, Davis and San Diego recently started a project to r...
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UCSC Study Shows Sea Otters Can Reduce Carbon Dioxide

Two UC Santa Cruz researchers have discovered that besides being adorable, a large number of sea otters can help reverse one of the main sources of global warming by assisting in the spread of sea kel...
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UCSF Researcher Earns Nobel for Revolutionary Stem Cell Discovery

UCSF researcher Shinya Yamanaka was recently awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that mature cells can be reprogrammed into pluripotent stem cells. Yamanaka was the first...
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A Brief History of the Plastic That Holds Today’s Gadgets Together

The cell phone: the one thing we’ve all become completely dependent on. Imagine a world without rubber, a world without silicon, a world without those pieces of plastic that are in your hand right n...
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Bioengineers Create Accessible Diagnostic Tests

Bioengineers from the University of California, Santa Barbara and the University of Rome, Tor Vergata recently patented a technology for rapid medical diagnostic tests using inspiration from natural p...
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Beneficial Bacterias: The Friends Your Belly is Aching For

When I hear the word bacteria, I still get chills imagining the endless wait on a freezing chair at the doctor’s office with those fluorescent lights glaring at me. Though bacteria has received a ba...
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UCSB Scientists Recieve Award For Artificial Pancreas Research

A team of researchers from UCSB and the Sansum Diabetes Research Institute were recently selected from a pool of 128 entrants to receive the 2nd Annual Wyss Institute IEEE EMBS Award for Translational...
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Researchers Study Diagram Literacy

A team of researchers from UCSB, Vanderbilt University and West Carolina University presented their work, a study on the effects of diagram orientation on interpretation abilities, in the most recent ...
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Get To Know a Researcher: Thomas Weimbs

Thomas Weimbs, an Associate Professor in the Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Department since 2007, has a lab at UCSB focuses on uncovering the underlying mechanisms of Autosomal Dominan...
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Make the Most of Your Years at UCSB

Ah yes, College. The habits you adopt during your time here are likely to stay with you for life. As I approach my last year at this incredible institution, there are a few tidbits I wish I knew earli...
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Curiosity Arrives on the Red Planet

The latest Mars rover Curiosity departed from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station last November and landed safely on the surface of the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012 making it the fourth American rover succ...
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