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A forest smothered in vines.
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Kudzu got a foothold in North America in 1876 and has since gotten a stranglehold on the forests of the Southeast.

Vast botanical data help solve Darwin’s puzzle of why some exotic plants become pests

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Volunteer taxonomist Gustav Pauly from the Florida Museum of Natural History, left and SBC-LTER lab technician Darrin Ambat on a morning dive to retrieve Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures from the sea floor

Bioblitz reveals hidden biodiversity in the Santa Barbara Channel
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Jeff Liang

New UCSB biofoundry to accelerate discoveries in biotechnology and biomanufacturing
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New catalysis method can generate a library of novel molecules for drug discovery
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Orbital lesions (cribra orbitalia) in a young child from the medieval site of Helgeandsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden

Cranial lesions are signs of compromised immune function
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Biochemist Yang Yang becomes UCSB’s first Freeman Hrabowski Scholar
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NSF grant supports advances in cyberinfrastructure for multimodal imaging data
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Optogenetic platform illuminates new antiviral strategies
a pair of hands holding an aging hand

Aging: Chronic inflammation is associated with industrialized lifestyles
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New NIH grant supports UCSB taste and hydration research
illustration of neurons and chemical signaling

Hormone cycles shape the structure and function of key memory regions in the brain
A fruit fly larva with imagined electric field lines in the background.
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Fruit fly larvae will reorient themselves toward the negative pole of an electric field.

Scientists discover that fruit fly larvae can sense electric fields
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New microCT machine unites biologists and materials scientists
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