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Beijing’s Forbidden City lies shrouded in industrial smog.
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Holger Kleine via iStock
China’s infamous air pollution affects its citizens’ minds as well as their bodies.

Clearing the air reduces suicide rates

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A blue macrophage engulfs a magenta lymphocyte, as rendered by ChatGPT4.
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ChatGPT4, prompt by Denise Montell
A blue macrophage engulfs a magenta lymphocyte, as rendered by ChatGPT4.
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Portrait of Kenneth Kosik
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Matt Perko
Kenneth S. Kosik
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Emily Jacobs seated, looking upward, seated in front of a backdrop of brain imagery
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Matt Perko
Emily Jacobs’ lab primarily examines how hormones affect the brain
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Bolivian tribe receiving health education regarding COVID-19
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Michael Gurven
A health educator conveys information about COVID-19 transmission to members of Bolivia's Tsimané population
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a group of researchers in Bolivia
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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.
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researchers working with Senegalese partners
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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
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A mountain made of multicolored pill capsules
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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.
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A computer rendering of bacteria and a superbug
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Ryan Allen and Peter Allen, Second Bay Studios
A new antibiotic cured mice infected with bacteria deemed nearly “untreatable” in humans — and resistance to the drug was virtually undetectable.