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UCLA faculty voice: ‘Assisted migration’ may save some species from climate change doom

September 24, 2014/in News /by

Humans can help threatened species survive

Man-made evolution is happening, and it’s time to control it

September 11, 2014/in News /by

UCLA evolutionary biologist Thomas Smith and colleagues from seven other universities explain that pests and diseases are evolving too quickly, while people and endangered species are evolving too slowly.

UCLA biologists delay the aging process by ‘remote control’

September 8, 2014/in News /by

UCLA biologists– David Walker, Matthew Ulgherait, and colleagues– have identified a gene that can slow the aging process throughout the entire body when activated remotely in key organ systems.

Why Access to Screens Is Lowering Kids’ Social Skills

August 21, 2014/in News /by

Yalda Uhls, researcher at UCLA’s Children’s Digital Media Center, Patricia Greenfield, professor of Psychology, and colleagues, have found that kids read emotions better after being deprived of electronic media.

New vaccine shows promise as stronger weapon against both tuberculosis, leprosy

August 19, 2014/in News /by

The UCLA lab of Marcus A. Horwitz, has created an improved vaccine against tuberculosis that also offers cross-protection against bacterium that causes leprosy.

PTSD can develop even without memory of the trauma

August 14, 2014/in News /by

Recent research by former UCLA post-doc Andrew Poulos (lead author), Psychology professor Michael Fanselow (senior author), and others suggests PTSD can develop without memory of the trauma.

Parasitic worms sniff out their victims

August 14, 2014/in News /by

New research by UCLA’s Elissa Hallem and colleagues, reveals that olfactory preferences in different roundworm species reflect host specificity rather than species relatedness, suggesting that olfaction plays an important role in host location.

How ‘jumping genes’ help black truffles adapt to their environment

August 5, 2014/in News /by

A recent study carried out by an international team–including senior author, Matteo Pellegrini, UCLA life scientist– reports on the truffle’s unique genetic makeup.

Scientists suggest new direction for treating depression, schizophrenia, and other mental disorders

July 17, 2014/in News /by

In the July 16 issue of Nature, Psychology professor Michelle Craske and her colleagues urge clinicians and neuroscientists to work together to understand and improve psychological treatments.

High school student Petra Grutzik wins 1st at INTEL science fair, under guidance of UCLA Life Scientists

June 28, 2014/in News Undergraduate /by

With Mentorship by UCLA Life Scientists, Nancy Day and Stephanie White, high school student Petra Grutzik wins 1st place at INTEL science fair and continues to move upward in science.

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