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At the Intersection of Math and Biology, Sindi Lab Sees a Breakthrough in Prion Disease

May 4, 2020
A UC Merced researcher and her lab have unlocked one of the mysteries that could lead to treatments — or even cures — for prion diseases in mammals. Prion diseases are a family of rare, progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affect both humans — such as with Creutzfeldt-...

LatinoLA: Farm Workers - 'Essential' but Living in Fear

May 1, 2020

NY Times: The Big Impact of a Small Hobby

May 1, 2020

KCET: Yosemite's Pandemic Shutdown Allows Wildlife a Respite

April 29, 2020

KVPR: Valley Fever: A Terror in the Body, a 'Wimp' in the Soil

April 28, 2020

KQED: Smokers 'Do Much Worse' With Coronavirus

April 25, 2020

LA Times: Who Knows Best? Mayors Collide with Governors Over COVID

April 25, 2020

Valley Public Radio: Fake News in the Time of COVID-19

April 24, 2020

Diverse Education: Recruiting and Retaining Diverse Faculty During Pandemic

April 22, 2020

Babies Forage for Sounds That Contribute to Language Acquisition, Study Shows

April 16, 2020
Most people wouldn’t think physics has anything to do with baby babble and human language development. But most people aren’t Ritwika Vallomparambath PanikkasserySugasree. The graduate student, who prefers to go by her first name, specializes in computational biophysics but likes...

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