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Cholera, a severe bacterial infection that causes diarrhea and kills if untreated, can be defeated with a diet high in protein, according to a new study from UC Riverside. Specifically, the study found that diets high in casein, the main protein in milk and cheese, as well as wheat gluten, could make a dramatic difference...

Federal rental assistance distributed during the COVID-19 pandemic did far more than help people stay in their homes. It also improved their mental health. A UC Riverside study published this week in the journal Health Affairs found that the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program—created by Congress in 2021 to prevent evictions among low-income renters during...

California residents will soon get some price relief at the pump and reductions in harmful vehicle emissions, thanks in part to a landmark UC Riverside vehicle emissions study. Scientists at the university’s College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology, or CE-CERT, found that increasing the ethanol content in California gasoline from the allowable...

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever ( CCHF) is one of the world’s most dangerous yet overlooked infectious diseases. Spread by ticks and livestock, the virus causes sudden fever, organ failure, and internal bleeding, killing up to 40% of those infected. Outbreaks have been reported across parts of Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East. Despite decades...

AUC Riverside-led study shows that holding underperforming schools accountable can yield life-changing benefits for their most vulnerable students. The research, led by UCR economist and professor Ozkan Eren, found that when high schools receive the state’s lowest performance rating—and are subsequently compelled to make changes—students are significantly less likely to have run-ins with law enforcement...

ndividuals who are physically fit may be better equipped to handle the negative effects of dehydration, according to research from the University of California, Riverside. In a study using selectively bred “high-runner” mice, the scientists found that fitter animals increased their voluntary running activity when deprived of water — a finding that could have implications...

he COVID-19 pandemic did not affect everyone equally. Communities of color, especially Latino (including undocumented persons), Black, and Native American groups, as well as people with low incomes, experienced much higher rates of infection, hospitalization, and death. Research has shown that several key factors worsened health inequalities during the COVID-19 pandemic. Crowded housing, dense neighborhoods...

While quantum computers are already being used for research in chemistry, material science, and data security, most are still too small to be useful for large-scale applications. A study led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, now shows how “scalable” quantum architectures — systems made up of many small chips working together as...

Anew UC Riverside-led study reveals how common small particles produced by nature as well as human activities can transform upon entering plant cells and weaken plants’ ability to turn sunlight into food. The discovery offers a path to control this issue. Engine combustion and manufacturing, natural processes like forest fires and volcanic eruptions all emit...

With age-related conditions like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and dementia on the rise, the University of California, Riverside, is joining a major effort to develop treatments that delay aging and improve life for older adults. The National Institute on Aging, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a $45 million, five-year grant to a...

UC Riverside has received seven grants from the U.S. Department of Education’s Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need ( GAANN) Program. The program offers grants to academic departments and programs at higher education institutions to fund graduate fellowships. Students with strong academic records and who have demonstrated financial need and intent to pursue the...

A multi-institutional team of scientists in the United States, led by physicist Peng Wei at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a new superconductor material that could potentially be used in quantum computing and be a candidate “topological superconductor.” Topology is the mathematics of shape. A topological superconductor uses a delocalized state of an...

The National Science Foundation has announced a $22 million grant to establish a “BioFoundry” laboratory for the study of extreme microorganisms with collaborating facilities at UC Riverside, UC Santa Barbara, and Cal Poly Pomona. The BioFoundry for Extreme and Exceptional Fungi, Archaea, and Bacteria, or ExFAB, will focus on developing techniques to learn from nature’s...

A UC Riverside-led study focusing on an oncoprotein called MYC has discovered a new MYC signaling mechanism that is deregulated in cancer cells. This mechanism, called MYC lysine-acetylation, activates specific genes that make mammary cells malignant and drives the tumor-promoting functions of MYC, including the ability of cancer cells to survive and proliferate even without...

A multiyear cancer-research project, stemming from a newly established partnership between the University of California, Riverside, and the City of Hope – Comprehensive Cancer Center (CoH-CCC), has received funding from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) of the National Institutes of Health to develop collaborations, resources, and training programs aimed at reducing disparities in cancer research...

Congratulations to 6 (six) of UCR MARC Trainees who won best poster awards during ABRCMS 2020! MARC Award Recipient(s):Kimberly Bennett, Marco Duenas, Halee Scott, Jose Soto, Spencer Pak, and Abel Vargas

A UC Riverside research team is among 20 groups receiving funding to investigate problems related to COVID-19. Elena Kozlova, a doctoral student in the Neuroscience Graduate Program, is working with Margarita Curras-Collazo, an associate professor of neuroscience, on the project. They are partnering with Ruth Gutiérrez Aguilar, a professor of medicine at the National Autonomous...