UCLA opens new Staglin Family Music Festival Center for Brain and Behavioral Health
Gift from Staglin family will fund research on returning unhealthy brains to health.
UCLA researchers devise new method to identify disease markers, a key step toward personalized medicine
Senior author Xinshu (Grace) Xiao and team, have developed a method, called GIREMI to inexpensively identify genetic markers for diagnosing and predicting the risk of a wide range of diseases.
UCLA life scientists make breakthrough for sickle cell disease treatment
Senior author, Dr. Donald Kohn, and his team have found that an innovative stem cell gene therapy method could provide a one-time, lasting treatment for sickle cell disease.
Airport screening for viruses misses half of infected travelers but can be improved, says UCLA-led study
A team lead by Ecology and Evolutionary Biology post-doc Katelyn Gostic and associate professor James Lloyd-Smith found that airport screening misses at least half of infected travelers.
UCLA biologists take a deep dive into ‘big data’ to research roots of disease
UCLA’s Institute for Quantitative and Computational Biosciences is working to answer biology’s “million-dollar question”: How do genes and the environment interact to ensure health or cause disease?
Words used in Chinese books illuminate how a nation’s values changed during economic reforms
UCLA-led study analyzes more than 270,000 books published over four decades
Two UCLA researchers receive $3.2M in CIRM grants for stem cell therapies
Drs.Hanna Mikkola and James Dunn, of UCLA’s Broad Stem Cell Research Center, were among 20 scientists nationwide to receive the Tools and Technologies Award from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine.
Powerful people more likely to have bad table manners
UCLA Psychologists say those in positions of great authority often become self-centered, lose touch with other people, even stop caring. But the data shows it’s not necessarily their fault. The behaviors are directly linked to changes in the frontal lobe of the brain.
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.