Nov. 15, 2016 – Growing up in rural China, Jian-Guo Zheng’s life was less than idyllic. His beloved father, a well-liked village tailor, died when Jian-Guo was only eight. His mother, a peasant farmer with no formal education, remarried a couple of years later, and although his

Oct. 27, 2016 – Employing a novel sensor made of graphene – a one-atom-thin layer of carbon – UC Irvine researchers have gained new insight into the process of programmed cell death in mitochondria, possibly opening the door to new ways of forcing cancer cells to self-destruct.

Sep. 23, 2016 – The fourth annual Southern California Microbiome Symposium was held Friday at CALIT2. The one-day event, titled, Connections to the Environment and Health, was co-hosted by UCI’s Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics, CALIT2 and Initiative for Data Science at

Sep. 22, 2016 – It was standing room only in the CALIT2 auditorium last night as 125 friends, family members and supporters of former Samueli School Dean Nicolaos Alexopoulos joined together to honor him and his wife, Sue Curtis Alexopoulos, after a UC Presidential Chair was nam