Blaire Van Valkenburgh named Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar
Blaire Van Valkenburgh, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been selected among 13 Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholars for 2015-2016 nationally.
85 college students tried to draw the Apple logo from memory. 84 failed.
In a new study published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, UCLA psychologists found that almost none of their subjects could draw the logo correctly from memory.
Sense of smell may reveal weight bias
UCLA researchers found that when people viewed images of overweight or obese people, they gave worse ratings to scent samples — even though the samples were unscented.
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 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.
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.
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.