UC Riverside researchers show how the brain turns on innate behavior
... ... Using the common fruit fly as a model organism, the researchers found through laboratory experiments that the innate behav...UC Riverside researchers release new variety of asparagus
UC Riverside researchers have released a new variety of asparagus that offers a higher yield than previous varieties of the vegetable and boasts an excellent spear quality, marked by a high percentage of marketable spears. Higher yield of marketable spears reduces the impact of high land and labor costs, thereby making the asparagus more profitable without raising consumer prices. ...... who lo...UC Riverside researchers identify clay as major contributor to oxygen that enabled early animal life
Clay made animal life possible on Earth, a UC Riverside-led study finds. A sudden increase in oxygen in the Earth's recent geological history, widely considered necessary for the expansion of animal life, occurred just as the rate of clay formation on the Earth's surface also increased, the researchers report. ... ..."Our study shows for the first time that the initial soils covering the terrest...UC Riverside researchers discover model organism for studying viruses that affect humans
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside have discovered that a simple worm, called C. elegans, makes an excellent experimental host for studying some of the most virulent viruses that infect humans.... ...The researchers published their findings in the Aug. 18 issue of the journal Nature in a paper titled, Animal virus replication and RNAi-mediated antiviral silencing in C. elegans...A $2 Million NSF grant brings technology and biology together at UC Riverside
Monitors that can sense too much fertilizer in a running river and tiny sensors that warn when a plant is starving are among the possible future breakthroughs to be pioneered by a new $2 million National Science Foundation project at UC Riverside. ... ...Michael Allen, Director of the Center for Conservation Biology and Chair of the Department of Plant Pathology, is the lead investigator on a fiv...UC Riverside professor organizes a workshop on vitamin D and cancer treatment and prevention
UC Riverside Professor Anthony Norman, regarded as one of the world's leading experts on Vitamin D, is organizing a three-day meeting on Vitamin D and cancer treatment and prevention on Wednesday, November 17 through Friday, November 19, 2004, in Bethesda, Md. ...... The Vitamin D Workshop, founded 30 years ago, is partnering with the National Cancer Institute to co-sponsor the event, which will...National Science Foundation awards $2 million grant to UC Riverside
The invasion of the over-fertilized weeds continues, but a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to UC Riverside may eventually help alleviate the state's ongoing weed problem.... ...The five-year grant, which begins Oct. 1, is the largest study of its kind ever attempted, said principal investigator Edith Allen, a professor in the UCR Department of Botany and Plant Sciences. She will lead...