It is with great sadness and heavy hearts that we inform you of the passing of our colleague Professor Norman M. Weinberger, who succumbed to lymphoma on February 14, 2016. Professor Weinberger was a pioneering…
The team, led by Timothy Bredy, UC Irvine associate professor of neurobiology & behavior, discovered that chemical modifications that add methyl groups to RNA, a process known as methylation, could strengthen memory formation. Results appear…
Irvine, Calif., July 19, 2016 – People who selectively recalled positive informaiton over neutral and negative information performed worse on memory tests conducted by University of California, Irvine neurobiologists, who sait the results suggest that…
When most of us think of past events we may remember a few important details, but with the passage of time, most of the fine details elude us. However, there are a few select individuals…
Professor Kim Green, Neurobiology and Behavior, has discovered a new use for the anti-cancer compound, pexidartinib. Professor Green and his colleagues found that treatment with pexidartinib results in the elimination of the brain’s resident immune…
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of age-related dementia and is thought to be driven by the accumulation of a protein called beta-amyloid that aggregates to form amyloid plaques in the brain. Microglia, immune…
On February 10th, PBS aired “Memory Hackers”, a program that explored new ways scientists are learning how to edit, delete, and create memories. The hour long broadcast featured some of the world’s leading experts on…
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 23, 2016 — Immune cells that normally help us fight off bacterial and viral infections may play a far greater role in Alzheimer’s disease than originally thought, according to University of California,…
Dr. Dane Clemenson, a postdoctoral Scholar in Dr. Craig Stark’s lab, has been selected to receive the Dean’s Early Career Research Excellence Award for Fall 2015….
Professor Andrea J. Tenner, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, was awarded the 2015 Honorary Life Member Award from the Society of Leukocyte Biology. The award is the society’s way of recognizing the contributions of its members…