Health & Wellness

January 5, 2022

How The Omicron Variant Impacts Our Path To COVID-19 Endemicity

By Devanshi Tomar

Eventually, COVID-19 can be labeled as endemic, but until we increase vaccination rates to slow transmission, limit hospitalization and death to ease strain on the healthcare system, we aren’t quite there. And until th...

December 5, 2021

Simply Stated: What Is the Best Form of Caffeine?

By Audrey Moeller

What should you be drinking to stay fueled and focused?

November 23, 2021

UCSB Marine Science Institute Highlights Microbes as Key to Further Medical Discovery

By Audrey Moeller, Anaya Khan

In early October, researchers Isabel J. Jones, Susanne H. Sokolow and Giulio A. De Leo from the Marine Science Institute at UC Santa Barbara explored the benefits of using natural enemies as a sustainable method to contr...

November 4, 2021

UCSB Professor Urges Centrality of Women in Biomedical Research

By Maya Ades

Emily Jacobs gave a lecture last week in the library entitled, “The Uncharted Mind — The Scientific Body of Knowledge: Whose Body Does it Serve?”

October 7, 2021

The State of COVID-19 Boosters in the United States

By Devanshi Tomar

Although the COVID-19 vaccine remains highly effective against COVID-19, this effectiveness decreases over time.

September 30, 2021

SB County Begins Rollout Of Pfizer Booster Shots To Vulnerable Populations

By Devanshi Tomar

These guidelines do not apply to those who received the Moderna or Janssen (J&J) vaccine.

July 18, 2021

Researchers Study PTSD-related Symptoms Among LGBTQ Latinx Immigrants

By Sean Crommelin

Researchers discovered that not even high levels of social support insulated SGM Latinx immigrants from developing symptoms.

May 23, 2021

UCSB Researchers Uncover Pharmaceutical Potential in the Microbiota of Animal Digestive Tracts

By Sean Crommelin

From fungi within these animals, the researchers found a host of genes which encode for biosynthetic enzymes and in turn natural products.

May 19, 2021

Star Tunicate’s Vascular System Sheds Light on Future Treatments for Aging-Associated Diseases

By Camilla Zhou

One of the questions the researchers asked was how an old-appearing blood vessel cell is different from a young-appearing cell.

March 14, 2021

COVID-19 Vaccines: How They Work and Why You Should Get One

By Michelle J. Lee

Here is what you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccines currently available and what they mean for you and the UC Santa Barbara community.

February 28, 2021

UCSB STEM Disciplines Come Together To Study Cell Polarization

By Sean Crommelin

Banavar and her collaborators were interested in understanding how cells understand their own geometry and maintain polarity.

January 31, 2021

Here Comes the Sun: UCSB Researchers Uncover Link Between UV Radiation and COVID-19 Transmission

By Sean Crommelin

However, the strength of the relationship was not quite as strong as others have proven to be, such as social distancing policies.

January 30, 2021

Santa Barbara County Hopeful for Accelerated Vaccine Distribution in Coming Weeks

By Sean Crommelin

By mid-February, a new standardized vaccine distribution standard will be implemented statewide.

January 17, 2021

Cancer and Chemo From a Wider Lens

By Sean Crommelin

Boddy began studying comparative oncology hoping to understand why some species are better equipped to weather cancer than others.

January 11, 2021

New Mobile COVID-19 Testing Unit Set Up in Santa Barbara

By Devanshi Tomar

Because the location of the testing site isn’t stationary, greater coverage is provided by the unit, as it can be moved based on the current distribution of COVID-19 cases at the time.