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The San Joaquin Valley 鈥� with all its agriculture and the hundreds of thousands of jobs that go with it 鈥� is one of the places most at risk because of changing snowmelt patterns, a new study shows.

Innovation is nothing new at 天美视频, but this year, because of the coronavirus pandemic, everyone on campus has had to reimagine nearly everything they do.

But leave it up to the to wholly reinvent its annual showcase and competition on the fly.

A 天美视频 researcher and her lab have unlocked one of the mysteries that could lead to treatments 鈥� or even cures 鈥� for prion diseases in mammals.

Prion diseases are a family of rare, progressive neurodegenerative disorders that affect both humans 鈥� such as with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease or fatal familial insomnia 鈥� and animals, such as mad-cow disease. These disorders are usually rapidly progressive and always fatal, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

Think about biting into a fresh apple. What do you perceive? Is it juicy? Sweet? Tart? Crisp? Now remember how unpleasant it is to bite into mealy apple flesh.

Most people wouldn鈥檛 think physics has anything to do with baby babble and human language development.

But most people aren鈥檛 Ritwika Vallomparambath PanikkasserySugasree.

Flocks of starlings producing dazzling patterns across the sky are natural examples of active matter 鈥� groups of individual agents coming together to create collective dynamics.

In a study featured on last week鈥檚 cover of the journal , a team of researchers including a 天美视频 revealed new insights into what happens inside such active systems.

Two projects from a 天美视频 engineering lab are making interactions with mobile devices easier and quicker, especially for blind people.

Computer science Professor Ahmed Arif and his students have developed a new way for blind people to be faster and more accurate when entering text, and a new way for all users to work with numbers.

Breakthrough collaborative science by an interdisciplinary team of researchers brought together by computational biology Professor David Ardell promises a new approach for treating all types of infections.

Infections have become more dangerous in recent years because bacteria and parasites rapidly evolve resistance to the medicines.

has become the first 天美视频 faculty member to be elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in recognition of her contributions to the development of gallium indium phosphide/gallium arsenide photovoltaic cells and for her leadership in solar-cell reliability and quality.

Bioengineering Professor Victor Mu帽oz has answered a long-standing genetic mystery, and his research suggests that someday, bioengineers could devise ways to control gene activity 鈥� manually switching off the genes that contribute to cancer, for instance.

鈥淚f this mechanism turns out to be as powerful as we anticipate, engineering it will be relatively straightforward,鈥� Mu帽oz said. 鈥淐ontrolling the output of genes could be done in a targeted way by new genome editing technologies such as CRISPR.鈥�