An international team of life scientists, including senior author, Alexander Hoffmann, a professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics have shown how B-cells respond only to true threats.
Girls who are told by a parent, sibling, friend, classmate or teacher that they are too fat at age 10 are more likely to be obese at age 19, a new study by UCLA psychologists shows.
Patricia Greenfield, Distinguished Professor of Developmental Psychology, has been elected a 2014 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Peter Narins, UCLA distinguished professor of integrative biology and physiology and of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Sebastiaan Meenderink, a UCLA physics researcher have linked changes in Puerto Rican climate over the past three decades to small but significant changes to the coqui frog, the territory’s national animal.
Four young men who have been paralyzed for years achieved groundbreaking progress — moving their legs — as a result of epidural electrical stimulation of the spinal cord– research developed by UCLA life scientists, V. Reggie Edgerton and Yury Gerasimenko.
A new UCLA psychology study provides evidence that being overweight makes people tired and sedentary — not the other way around.
UCLA Psychology professor, Jaana Juvonen, and co-author Sandra Graham, a UCLA professor of education have conducted the most thorough analysis to date of studies on school bullying and found that K-12 schools’ efforts to curtail bullying are often disappointing.
Professor Amy Rowat’s Science and Food Series is back with a new lineup, which includes Wylie Dufresne, Ole Mouritsen, Lena Kwak and L.A.’s own Morihiro Onodera.
Recent research by Phillip Atiba Goff, UCLA assistant professor of social psychology, and Matthew Jackson, a UCLA postdoctoral fellow in social psychology, examines police officers’ attitudes toward African-Americans, particularly their perception of young black boys.
