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Highlander Venture Fund chooses UCR professor’s ‘next-generation’ mosquito repellent for second investment

Up to $500,000 will help a startup company market a killer repellent that’s nontoxic, natural, and sweet-smelling
By Jeanette Marantos | | Business

Four UCR undergraduates awarded prestigious research fellowships

Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowships enable students to conduct research in top labs this summer
By Sarah Nightingale | | Science / Technology

Researchers receive $1 million for project challenging long-standing paradigm in endocrinology

W. M. Keck Foundation award supports UC Riverside research aimed at showing membrane transporters guide flow of steroid hormones into cells
By Iqbal Pittalwala | | Health

Mapping the first family tree for tropical forests

An international team of researchers has unraveled the evolutionary history of the world’s tropical forests
By Sarah Nightingale | | Science / Technology

The science behind the scenes of ‘Basmati Blues’

UCR geneticist Norman Ellstrand lent his scientific expertise to a musical romantic comedy centered around genetically modified rice
By Sarah Nightingale | | Science / Technology
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Genetic changes help mosquitoes survive pesticide attacks

UCR study shows how intensive pesticide use is driving mosquito evolution at the genetic level
By Sarah Nightingale | | Science / Technology