Nearly two decades before the approval of a daily oral GLP-1 pill for weight management, UC Riverside bioengineering professor Jiayu Liao contributed to research demonstrating that a nonpeptide molecule could activate the GLP-1 receptor and produce biological effects in animals.
UC Riverside Associate Professor of Bioengineering Jia Guo has developed a new way to reconstruct magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans that could improve the reliability of blood flow measurements when MRI signals are extremely weak.
Arctic sea ice may look like a continuous frozen surface from a distance. Up close, much of it is a shifting collection of individual slabs called floes, pushed by winds and ocean currents and repeatedly colliding with one another.
Satellite imagery and soil databases can help farmers and researchers understand conditions across agricultural land, but working with those datasets often requires specialized software, computing resources, and technical expertise. A team led by UC Riverside researchers built FutureFarmNow to make that information easier to access and use.
Chen’s research program focuses on developing bioengineering and biosensing approaches for food safety, environmental monitoring, and clinical diagnostics, with a particular interest in CRISPR-Cas protein engineering. The new USDA-funded project builds on that work by applying molecular detection tools to a major food-safety challenge.
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, are advancing what researchers describe as the first continuously ventilated, structurally representative three-dimensional human lung model informed by both organ- and tissue-level experimental data. Led by Professor Mona Eskandari and trainees in UCR’s bioMechanics Experimental and Computational Health (bMECH) Laboratory, the research was highlighted at the 2025 SIMULIA...
Ozkan, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in UC Riverside’s Marlan and Rosemary Bourns College of Engineering, co-authored the paper with Paul R. Sanberg, president of the National Academy of Inventors. The work grew out of Ozkan’s role as a 2025 NAI Invention Ambassador, a leadership position focused on collaboration, translational research, and inventor...
Researchers from the University of California, Riverside, in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, have confirmed a recently identified form of magnetism known as altermagnetism in hematite, a common iron oxide better known as rust.
