UCI Health is the first health system in Orange County to offer a left ventricular assist device (LVAD) for patients diagnosed with end-stage heart failure. LVAD is a life-saving treatment for patients with end-stage heart failure who are awaiting heart transplants or those who are not candidates for heart transplant…
To provide helpful advice and informative stories about life during the COVID-19 pandemic, the University of California, Irvine has launched a comprehensive news site – oc-covid19.org – to serve Orange County and regional communities. The site’s editorial content is designed to engage viewers with useful and novel information derived from…
Antibiotic treatment — which depletes gut microbes — drastically changes the parts of a rat’s brain that are activated during opioid addiction and withdrawal.
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center used CRISPR technology to identify key regulators of aggressive chronic myeloid leukemia.
Physicians and scientists at UC San Diego Health have launched a pair of serological tests that will look for novel coronavirus antibodies—evidence in persons tested that they have previously been infected by the viral cause of COVID-19, even if they never experienced tell-tale symptoms.
Serological tests look for antibodies produced in response to infection, and will help determine who may have potentially acquired immunity to COVID-19—and who remains at risk
When adult brain cells are injured, they revert to an embryonic state, say researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine. In their newly adopted immature state, the cells become capable of re-growing new connections that, under the right conditions, can help to restore lost function.
In corticospinal injuries using a mouse model, adult neurons begin a natural regeneration process by reverting back to an embryonic state and that regeneration is sustained by a surprising gene
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