A new study by Scientists at UCLA and China’s Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden will improve predictions of which plant species will survive the increasingly intense droughts associated with global climate change.
UCLA conservation biologist Brad Shaffer and other scientists have resolved a nearly 80-year-old mystery surrounding a group of frogs in and around New York City known for their distinctively odd croak.
UCLA research could lead to a simple saliva test capable of diagnosing — at an early stage — diabetes and cancer, and perhaps neurological disorders and autoimmune diseases.
Professor Peter Narins has been elected president of the International Society for Neuroethology, a post he will hold until 2016.
New UCLA research addresses a critical health problem for those who are paralyzed
Findings, from the lab of Dr. Arjun Deb, suggest the possibility of coaxing scar-forming cells in the heart to change their identity into blood vessel-forming cells, which could potentially be used to improve healing after a heart attack.
UCLA Life Scientists Elissa Hallem and Lili Yang are among four scientists from the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research that have received the prestigious NIH Director’s New Innovator Award.
UCLA psychologists find that white Americans may view diversity and multiculturalism more negatively as the U.S. moves toward becoming a minority-majority nation.
Humans can help threatened species survive
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.
