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Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology

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Matt Perko
Researchers Mia Raimondi, left, Christopher Hayes and lead author Michael Costello have uncovered how pathogenic Bordetella bacteria adhere to mammalian airways despite their hosts' natural defenses

A new look at an old protein may yield therapy for contagious respiratory disease

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Matt Perko

University names winners of top student awards for Class of 2024
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Understanding aging on a cellular level
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Very Important Trees Tour imparts knowledge, inspires appreciation of campus plants
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Matt Perko
This is a story about proteins, how they malfunction, and what cells do to prevent that.

Researchers reveal a new approach for treating degenerative diseases
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Clockwise, from left: Matthew Unger, Riya Nilkrant, Xuanwei Liang, Isaac Hair, Anika Jena

Five UC Santa Barbara undergraduates named Goldwater Scholars
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Researchers uncover a potential method for interrupting the misfolding of tau protein that underlies neurodegenerative disease
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Shrew: Trebol-a/CC BY-SA 3.0 Whale: Jeff Jacobsen

Reference genomes from the world’s largest and smallest mammals pave the way toward solving mysteries of development and lifespan
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Yarumal, a municipality in the foothills of the Andes north of Medellín, is one of several communities in Colombia that host a large kindred with a genetic form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease

Untangling a sticky mystery: Researchers make precious headway into a genetic form of Alzheimer’s disease
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ChatGPT4, prompt by Denise Montell
A blue macrophage engulfs a magenta lymphocyte, as rendered by ChatGPT4.

When bad cells go good: harnessing cellular cannibalism for cancer treatment
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Clinical trial shows that the ketogenic diet is effective at controlling polycystic kidney disease
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Zen and the art of mitochondrial maintenance: The machinery of death makes a healthier life
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Matt Perko
Kenneth S. Kosik

A peek inside the quickening race to understand, treat — and even cure — Alzheimer’s disease
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