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

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.

Research by Daniel Blumstein, professor and chair of the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Greg Bryant, UCLA assistant professor of communication studies, has shown that distorted and jarring music tends to excite listeners because it mimics the distress calls of animals.

Ladan Shams, UCLA assistant professor of Psychology, recently published a study of how brain corrects perceptual errors. These findings may lead to better hearing aids and robotic technology.