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The facility houses state of the art and legacy equipment including four confocal microscopes, 3D Palm super-resolution, an environmental SEM, a complete set of tissue sectioning instruments, a gene gun, a fluidics robot, fluorescence microscopes, a luminescence dark box, a macro imager and 3D image analysis software. All training is free of charge. All resources can be booked online by the hour, with expert assistance available at no extra charge during business hours.
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May 27, 2026
Quantum research points to future energy and computing technologies
QuVET at UC Riverside studies how quantum wave functions move through ultra-thin materials
May 20, 2026
Scientists identify brain circuit that helps us “change gears”
UC Riverside study shows how the brain abandons outdated strategies and adapts to new rules
May 19, 2026
Birds clap in the dark to flirt
In northern Argentina, one bird courts romance by snapping its wrists together, producing a sound scientists have puzzled over for decades. Now, researchers have captured the behavior in detail, revealing how scissor-tailed nightjars create one of the most curious sounds in the avian world.
May 11, 2026
New method sharpens the search for alien biology
New UCR research shows that the search for life beyond Earth could benefit from a statistical approach that prioritizes patterns rather than searching for individual chemical or molecular traces.