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Researchers uncover a potential method for interrupting the misfolding of tau protein that underlies neurodegenerative disease

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Michael Gurven
The Tsimane Health and Life History Project mobile field team, consisting of UCSB anthropologist Michael Gurven, center bottom, and including UCSB undergraduate researcher Tianyu Cao (far right), is composed of several Tsimane anthropologists, a Tsimane health promoter, as well as a Bolivian physician and biochemist.

New research shows genetic mutation known for Alzheimer’s disease is associated with higher fertility in women
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UCSB geographer David López-Carr, center left, and Stanford University health and environmental scientist Andrea Lund, center right, working with Senegalese partners

Nuisance vegetation removal in Senegalese waterways reduces the overall prevalence of parasitic infections and increases local food production
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A new synergistic method can create non-canonical amino acids by merging synthetic photochemistry with biocatalysis
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Max Wilson

First map of a cellular stress memory landscape paves the way for better understanding of cell stress-related disease processes
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Researchers discover a way to improve nonviral gene editing as well as a new type of DNA repair
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Ryan Allen and Peter Allen, Second Bay Studios
A new antibiotic susceptibility test revealed that existing FDA-approved antibiotics can effectively treat multidrug-resistant infections.

New test reveals existing antibiotics, hiding in plain sight on pharmacy shelves, can cure superbugs

Centering LBTQ+ Women, Nonbinary Health

A Better Model for Type 2 Diabetes
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An ‘Amazing’ Result
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The World According to GARP
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A Clear Vision

A New Kind of Chemo
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