News & Media

The Invasive Green Mussel May Inspire New Forms of Wet Adhesion

August 27, 2009

The green mussel is known for being a notoriously invasive fouling species, but scientists have just discovered that it also has a very powerful form of adhesion in its foot, according to a recent article in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. The stickiness of the mussel's foot could possibly be copied to form new man-made adhesives.

UCSB Press Release

UC Santa Barbara and Burnham Institute for Medical Research Announce Director

August 10, 2009

The Burnham Institute for Medical Research and the University of California, Santa Barbara have named leading biomedical researcher Jamey D. Marth director of a new joint Center for Nanomedicine that will be established at UCSB.

Bio-Medicine

Chemists Explain the Switchboards in our Cells

August 03, 2009

Our cells are controlled by billions of molecular "switches" and chemists at UC Santa Barbara have developed a theory that explains how these molecules work. Their findings may significantly help efforts to build biologically based sensors for the detection of chemicals ranging from drugs to explosives to disease markers.

Their research is described in an article published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS).

UCSB Press Release

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