NIH Funds Research Into Stem Cells, Bone Disease
A new study from UC Merced Professor Jennifer O.
Thursday 2 April 2026
A new study from UC Merced Professor Jennifer O.
UC Merced lecturer Carol Sipan became concerned with the social stigma of HIV in some developing countries after a 2009 trip to Burundi, where she and a colleague from Tanzania were training pastors and church leaders on what they and their congregations could d
Home-based interventions that teach parents to engage children in playful interactive learning activities can close the cognitive development gap between disadvantaged children and higher-resource peers, according to a new study led by UC Merced Professor Jan Wallander.
UC Merced is relaunching its branch of the Blum Center for Developing Economies with a focus on food security for the first two y
There are many labs at UC Merced where visitors can see students huddled over microscopes and petri dishes, using tweezers to extr
There are 1.7 million multidrug-resistant, hospital-acquired infections that extend hospital stays, increase medical expenses and decrease quality of life. The United States alone reports at least 120,000 deaths annually from resistant infections that are improperly treated because of a scarcity of reliable antibiotics.
But a new study shows that not only can hospitals be breeding grounds for antibiotic-resistant bacteria, they are also important in stopping the evolution of resistant bacteria.
It’s not just luck or practice that gets Sherpa mountaineers up the slopes of Mt. Everest each year.
Functioning so well at extreme elevations is in the Sherpa and Tibetan DNA — literally.
Adjunct Professor Gabriela Loots is studying why certain cancers prefer to metastasiz
Professor Anna Beaudin is just starting up her lab at UC Merced, but a paper she recently published already has some big implicat
Last fall, the 