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Matt Perko
College of Creative Studies student Jake Tran

Watching art films can make you a more creative thinker

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Milk is often fortified with nutrients like vitamin D, vitamin A, iron and folic acid.

Food fortification prevents 7 billion nutrient gaps annually — but could triple its impact
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New study explores links between early-life gut microbiome and neurodevelopment
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National Cancer Institute
Acute Myelocytic Leukaemia

UCSB researchers develop a genetic sensor that could allow MRIs to image molecular-level changes
a patient intake form, a stethoscope and a red ribbon that symbolizes HIV

HIV patients are especially vulnerable to extreme weather events
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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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Courtesy UCSB Engineering
Left to right: Samuel Lobo, Devon Callan, Erica Keane Rivera, Ventura Rivera, Austin Dubose

UCSB startup builds software to speed drug discovery
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Peptides have found use in over 80 drugs worldwide since insulin was first synthesized in the 1920s.

Scientists unlock a massive new ‘color palette’ for biomedical research by synthesizing non-natural amino acids
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Photo by Егор Камелев on Unsplash
Finding the right taste to send mosquitoes packing could save hundreds of thousands of lives.

Mosquito taste receptor could lead to new insect repellents
A river meanders through green jungle on the edge of a large city.
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Thiago Japyassu via Unsplash
Yellow fever cases have begun to rise, spilling over the expanding border between the forest and urban areas.

Old diseases return as settlement pushes into the Amazon rainforest
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The health of a woman and her future child may be at risk before she even knows she’s pregnant.

Hot, humid conditions during pregnancy undermine child health much more than heat alone
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Rendever.com

NIH backs UCSB virtual reality project to help older adults build real social connections
graduate student Kylie Falcione looks at brain scans
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Matt Perko
Kylie Falcione

Brain science, social media and a modern moral panic
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