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October 15, 2014

Discovery of heart’s repair process suggests new treatment strategy for heart attack

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.

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April 14, 2014

Climate change a likely culprit in coqui frog’s altered calls, say UCLA biologists

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.

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