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UC Riverside-led rat study finds an immune receptor in the hippocampus is responsible for the onset of the disease after brain injuries

Zinc excess in the body correlates with oxidative stress

Study co-led by UC Riverside scientist could help develop strategies to combat the disease

UC Riverside research used internet data mining to monitor health effects reported by electronic cigarette users over time

UC Riverside-led research on fruit fly could lead to better understanding of how taste information is coded in the brain

UC Riverside study analyzed six popular e-cigarette tanks and their atomizers

UC Riverside researchers are helping the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency eliminate animal testing

A research team at the University of California, Riverside, has found that electronic cigarettes, often targeted to youth and pregnant women, produce a stress response in neural stem cells, which are critical cells in the brain. Present throughout life, stem cells become specialized cells with more specific functions, such as...

Scientists have finally found malaria’s Achilles’ heel, a neurotoxin that isn’t harmful to any living thing except Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria.

UC Riverside-led study is the first to find an association between thirdhand smoke and gene expression in humans

Study by UC Riverside and Portland State University scientists finds nicotine concentrations in JUULs is dangerously high

UC Riverside’s Karine Le Roch is principal investigator on two NIH grants

Hongdian Yang is UC Riverside’s first recipient of the prestigious fellowship

A team of researchers led by a University of California, Riverside, scientist has found that various stages of the development of human malaria parasites, including stages involved in malaria transmission, are linked to epigenetic features and how chromatin — the complex of DNA and proteins within the nucleus — is...

UC Riverside basic discovery offers path to safer products to protect against disease-carrying mosquitoes, chemicals to control crop-damaging pests

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

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