Paralyzed Rats Walk Again with Flexible Spinal Implant

“This work represents a significant advance in the development of biocompatible devices,” says UCLA Life Scientist Reggie Edgerton: In his own work, Edgerton has placed electrodes outside the dura mater and shown they can help paralyzed patients recover limited movement.

Why Do Zebras Have Stripes? New Study Makes Temperature Connection

UCLA biologist Brenda Larison and colleagues visited zebra populations throughout Africa and studied stripe patterns. The most important factors affecting stripes: temperature.

$6 million from NIH for new UCLA Center for the Ribonomics of Gene Regulation

Alexander Hoffmann and Douglas Black, professors of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics receive a $6 million NIH grant to launch multidisciplinary research across UCLA.

Endangered monkeys in the Amazon are more diverse than previously thought, UCLA study finds

Recent research led by UCLA Life Scientists, Michael Alfaro and Jessica Lynch Alfaro, is changing how we think about endangered monkeys in the Amazon.