University of California Santa Barbara
Humans live well beyond the reproductive phase of life — unlike many other animals. Why?
According to long-standing canon in evolutionary biology, natural selection is cruelly selfish, favoring traits that help promote reproductive success. This ...
How CRISPR gene editing could dramatically reduce health threats posed by disease-carrying mosquitoes
Mosquitoes are one of humanity’s greatest nemeses, estimated to spread infections to nearly 700 million people per year and cause ...
Controlling gene expression with light may lead to disease treatments
Researchers in UC Santa Barbara’s departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology have gotten a step ...
