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UC Briefs

May 17, 2011 by and

Scientists Find New Treatment for Kidney Disease   Two researchers at UCSB, associate professor Thomas Weimbs and graduate student Jeffery Talbot, recently published a study in the Proceedings of...
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A Glass a Day May Keep Doctor Away

May 17, 2011 by

Researchers in France have discovered that resveratrol and polyphenols — two organic compounds commonly found in grapes — may aid in the prevention of type II diabetes.
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Brain Reacts Similarly to Unhealthy Foods and Addictive Drugs

May 10, 2011 by

When someone says that a certain brand of candy is as addictive as crack, they might not be as far off as one might think. In a recent study published by Yale University in the Archives of General Psy...
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Scientists Research Impact of Household Energy Use in Cities

May 10, 2011 by

Two UCSB geography professors have completed a study of household environmental effects on urban ecosystems, which was published in the April issue of the journal Ecological Applications. Professors J...
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Flexible Brains Bring Better Learning Skills

May 3, 2011 by

A recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences may provide researchers with a framework to help determine a person’s learning capacity for motor activiti...
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Mollusk Sees World Through Mineral Eyes

April 25, 2011 by

A recent study co-authored by Daniel Speiser, a postdoctoral fellow at UCSB’s Dept. of Ecology Evolution and Marine Biology, provides strong evidence that the chiton, a simple mollusk, has developed...
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Species Variance Helps Remove Water Pollutants

April 19, 2011 by

A study completed and authored by former UCSB biologist Bradley J. Cardinale confirms biodiversity as the driver of nutrient uptake in streams — a process which acts as the ecosystem’s natural cle...
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UC Science Briefs

April 12, 2011 by

Researchers Help Henhouses By Fighting Pests With Pests Researchers from UC Riverside have found that when it comes to parasites found on chickens, two wrongs just may make a right. According to the r...
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Study Makes Top 40 List to Help Focus Research

April 12, 2011 by

A plethora of scientists have released a set of 40 questions that they believe will help guide collaboration between scientific researchers and policy makers on conservation issues in the U.S. The com...
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Biocontrol Beetle Beats Back Problematic Plant Species

March 29, 2011 by

According to a recent study, in which two UCSB scientists were collaborating authors, the troublesome invasion of the tamarisk — a non-native tree which has overrun rivers in the western U.S. — ca...
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Open Source Community Convenes for Southern California Linux Expo

March 1, 2011 by

Casual users, software developers, hardware manufacturers and open-source all-arounders met in the Hilton Los Angeles Airport hotel for the ninth Southern California Linux Expo, or SCALE 9x.
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Siberian Lake Ecology Linked to Atmosphere

March 1, 2011 by

UCSB’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis has analyzed data collected from Lake Baikal in Siberia and found relations between atmospheric pressures and seasonality of the lake, wh...
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Spectrometry Method Reveals Self-Assembly Process of Peptides

February 22, 2011 by

Scientists at UCSB have used a new spectroscopic method to observe the assembly of amyloid fibrils — long-chain proteins that form in patients with certain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease an...
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CNN To Broadcast Documentary About UCSB Researchers

February 15, 2011 by

UCSB professor Kenneth Kosik’s research on Alzheimer’s disease in Colombia was featured in the documentary “Filling the Blank,” which will air Feb. 19 on CNN. The program follows the work of K...
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Kepler Mission Identifies Possibly Habitable Planets

February 15, 2011 by

UCSB scientists Tim Brown and Avi Shporer are involved in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Kepler mission, which has recently added 54 new planet candidates in the habitable zone ...
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