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This Week in Science

April 2, 2015 by

Sometimes, you can only find out what something is by clarifying what it is not. Astronomers are studying dark matter in a similar conceit — observing how the elusive substance behaves during collis...
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Researchers Discover Deep Sea Microbes Using Self-Mutation to Survive in Extreme Environments

April 2, 2015 by

Hundreds to thousands of meters below sea level there exist unique single-celled microorganisms from the domain Archaea. Many Archaea are biology’s adrenaline junkies flourishing in Earth’s extrem...
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Researchers Probe Conformations of Protein Involved in Alzheimer’s Disease

March 5, 2015 by

UC Santa Barbara researchers recently studied the biophysics of the regulation and aggregation of Tau, a protein critical in regulating several intracellular functions and believed to play a role in t...
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Got Health? Awareness Week Comes to Campus

March 5, 2015 by

For many of us, college means eating a bag of Doritos between classes because you don’t have enough time for a real meal, and drowning in coffee during late night study sessions. Many students strug...
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A Brief Salvo of Science from 2014

March 4, 2015 by

Scientists recently discovered a sea slug that can survive for months on photosynthesis­­ – much like a plant­ – by incorporating genes from algae into its own chromosome. The V. litorea algae ...
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Excel in Office on the Cheap

March 4, 2015 by

Gauchos know that making a dollar stretch as far as possible is a top priority. One course tool that nearly all students use that is not only overpriced, but also costs a student-budget fortune, is Mi...
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UCSB Hosts Sustainable Seafood Summit

February 19, 2015 by

As part of the University of California Global Food Initiative, UCSB hosted its first “Food from the Sea” summit yesterday, which focused on the role of fisheries and aquaculture in global food sy...
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UCSB Researchers Tackle Pediatric Diabetes With Artificial Pancreas

February 12, 2015 by

Type 1 diabetic patients know that the responsibilities necessary to manage life with the disease are all routine: monitoring food consumption, maintaining a balance in physical activity and tracking ...
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UCSB Microbial Oceanographer Receives Prestigious Award

February 5, 2015 by

Craig Carlson of UC Santa Barbara’s Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology was awarded the prestigious G. Evelyn Hutchinson Award by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and O...
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Kim Lewis brings the environment into the labroratory to develop antiobiotics to counter the growing antimicrobial-resistant bacteria that are threatening effective treatment of infections.

Tricking Soil Bacteria to Grow in Lab: Discovering a Class of Antibiotics to Combat Drug-Resistant Bacteria

January 23, 2015 by

Finding new antibiotics to combat the growing list of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria is crucial to fighting infections and maintaining food supplies. Now, scientists are introducing the first new cl...
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Kim Lewis brings the environment into the labroratory to develop antiobiotics to counter the growing antimicrobial-resistant bacteria that are threatening effective treatment of infections.
PHOTO COURTESY OF Scott Hamilton
PHOTO COURTESY OF Scott Hamilton

Size Matters: Smaller Fish and Endangered Reefs

January 15, 2015 by

UC Santa Barbara research biologist Jenn Caselle recently published a study revealing the importance of and threats to the California sheephead fish (Semicossyphus pulcher) in maintaining healthy mari...
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UCSB Alums Found – and Grow – Apeeling Food Technology Company

January 15, 2015 by

Apeel Sciences is a start-up that aims to reduce worldwide food waste and pesticide-use through ultrathin film-like crop sprays that extend the shelf life of produce and camouflage the growing crops f...
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UCSB Researchers Successfully Immortalize Rodent Stem Cells

December 4, 2014 by

Researchers led by UC Santa Barbara Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology professor James Thomson recently found a way to hold mouse stem cells on the threshold of differentiation, allowing them t...
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Santa Barbara’s Doctors Without Walls Turns Tech

November 20, 2014 by

Beyond the beaches and beautiful weather of Santa Barbara lies a prevalent homeless population. Since 2008, however, the organization Doctors Without Walls — Santa Barbara Street Medicine (DWW-SBSM)...
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MCDB Professor Receives Grant to Study Polycystic Kidney Disease

November 20, 2014 by

UCSB Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology Thomas Weimbs, was recently awarded a three-year grant for $600,000 by the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust of New York to support his l...
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