IN THE NEWS: The Orange County Register interviewed UC Irvine neuro-oncologist Dr. Daniela Bota about brain vaccines as a way to complement traditional brain cancer treatments: Military metaphors are hard to avoid when describing the work in Daniela Bota’s lab. Petri dishes become training camps, where cells taken from patients…
For many, the holidays offer a once-a-year opportunity to visit with distant elderly relatives. Unfortunately, most people don’t make the best use of this precious time. Dr. Laura Mosqueda says holiday visits are a good time to assess elderly loved ones’ care and assistance needs. “Older adults are some of…
A short burst of moderate exercise enhances the consolidation of memories in both healthy older adults and those with mild cognitive impairment, scientists with UC Irvine’s Center for the Neurobiology of Learning & Memory have discovered. Most research has focused on the benefits of a long-term exercise program on overall…
Thomas Lane looks anything but the typical scientist as he strides through his lab at UC Irvine’s Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center sporting shorts, a T-shirt and loafers. Walking past research assistants hunkered over microscopes and test tubes, he pauses to show off his prized possessions: 1970s…
UC Irvine oncologists are looking for new ways to treat glioblastoma multiforme, the deadliest type of brain cancer. While surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiation is the current standard of care, it doesn’t fully eliminate the cancer. The goal is to develop an additional therapy that seeks out and destroys…
UC Irvine researchers have created a new stem cell-derived cell type with unique promise for treating neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Dr. Edwin Monuki of UC Irvine’s Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, developmental & cell biology graduate student Momoko Watanabe and colleagues developed these cells—called choroid plexus…
Researchers from UC Irvine’s Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and California State University, Fullerton’s Health Promotion Research Institute have formed a partnership to help reduce cancer disparities in Orange County. The collaboration, the first of its kind between the two institutions, is led by Dr. F. Allan Hubbell, professor emeritus…
Kristi L. Koenig, MD, has been appointed to the Commission on Emergency Medical Services by California Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez. Koenig fills an unexpired term and will serve through Jan. 1, 2013. Koenig is a professor of emergency medicine at the University of California, Irvine and is director of…
UC Irvine and Brown University researchers have created a new fruit fly model of inherited epilepsy that’s providing insights into the mechanisms underlying temperature-dependent seizures while establishing a platform from which to develop therapies for these disorders. In the Oct. 10 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, Diane O’Dowd of…
A sweeping study on the issue of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospitals shows that using antimicrobial soap and ointment on all intensive-care patients significantly significantly cuts bloodstream infections. Led by UC Irvine infectious diseases specialist Dr. Susan Huang, the study involved nearly 75,000 patients in 43 community hospitals in 16 states…
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