New discovery may drive the development of better, more effective immunotherapies for the treatment of breast cancer
New cancer immunotherapy approaches are revolutionizing treatment options for breast cancer patients. However, many lead to insufficient immune responses rendering the therapies incapable of completely eradicating tumors.
In a new study,...
21-Feb-2020 1:30 PM EST
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Saving Mother and Child
Five-year-old Emlee jumps high, runs fast and likes to pirouette around the living room in her white ballet slippers. Her mom, Karalayne Maglinte, calls her a miracle. Indeed, Emlee is the embodiment of the word: She’s one of the reasons Maglinte...
20-Feb-2020 4:25 PM EST
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The Speed King
Greg Weiss, a backpack slung over his shoulder, walks through Aldrich Park. The professor of chemistry has just left a meeting at UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business about University Lab Partners, Orange County’s first wet lab incubator,...
20-Feb-2020 4:05 PM EST
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Gut Feelings
The long, winding river that is the human digestive tract is prone to all manner of diseases, from the merely irritable to the decidedly deadly. All fall under the purview of the H.H. Chao Comprehensive Digestive Disease Center, an internationally...
20-Feb-2020 3:55 PM EST
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Battling Brain Cancer on All Fronts
When you’re facing a cancer diagnosis with an average survival span of 12 to 18 months, every milestone is a victory. That makes each wedding invitation, graduation announcement and birthday photo that UCI neuro-oncologist Dr. Daniela Bota...
20-Feb-2020 3:50 PM EST
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Beating Cancer – One Patient at a Time
Like most people, John Gifford wasn’t looking forward to a colonoscopy when he arrived on the UCI Medical Center campus in Orange in 2018. The Riverside man, 65, was concerned about his family history of colorectal cancer and had dutifully...
20-Feb-2020 3:20 PM EST
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Veggie-loving fish could be the new white meat
A secret to survival amid rising global temperatures could be dwelling in the tidepools of the U.S. West Coast. Findings by University of California, Irvine biologists studying the genome of an unusual fish residing in those waters offer new...
19-Feb-2020 12:50 PM EST
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UCI researchers reveal how low oxygen levels in the heart predispose people to life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias
Low oxygen levels in the heart have long been known to produce life-threatening arrhythmias, even sudden death. Until now, it was not clear how.
New findings, in a study led by Steve A. N. Goldstein, MD, PhD, vice chancellor for Health Affairs...
18-Feb-2020 3:30 PM EST
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Coronavirus psychological impact may exceed actual threat to physical health, say UCI experts
6-Feb-2020 3:35 PM EST
UCI business analytic student's Super Bowl prediction model remains perfect - predicts 49ers victory
21-Jan-2020 4:35 PM EST
UCI impeachment expert - Matthew Beckman
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University of California, Irvine ecologist Steven D. Allison and School of Humanities Dean Tyrus Miller can comment on why science needs the humanities to solve climate change
20-Sep-2019 1:30 PM EDT
University of California, Irvine scientists available to speak about the impact of climate change on human health and wildfires
20-Sep-2019 12:05 PM EDT
UCI anthropology professor can comment on new rules on U.S. immigrants who are poor
12-Aug-2019 8:05 PM EDT
UCI urban planning & public policy professor and director, Water UCI, can comment on IPCC "Climate Change and Land" report
9-Aug-2019 5:05 PM EDT
UCI professor of ecology & evolutionary biology and earth system science, can comment on latest UN report on world's food supply
9-Aug-2019 1:05 PM EDT
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