After cracking the human genome, companies and academic institutions are now competing for a new goal: to reduce the cost of sequencing a human genome from the current $10 million to only $1,000. Read more...

The truth is rarely pure and never simple, Oscar Wilde informs us in “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. Read more...

Peter Ladefoged, UCLA professor emeritus of linguistics and the foremost linguistic phonetician in the world, died in London on Tuesday, Jan. 24, at the age of 80. Read more...

Racing against the storm to save his research, Tyler Curiel stayed in his lab at Tulane University in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina. He hoped to protect rare cancer cells vital to his research, which examines immune cells and their response to cancer and infections. Read more...

The Cooperage as UCLA students know it today may not be so familiar next year, as plans to remodel the facility are now well underway, according to reports from the Associated Students UCLA board of directors. Read more...

The UCLA Marching Band sent a 57-member ensemble to Hong Kong to join lights, floats and thousands of other musicians to usher in the Year of the Dog on Sunday. Read more...

Lions danced around the room, egged on by children squealing in delight at their acrobatics and sparkling costumes. Crowds cheered beneath rows of red paper lanterns and clapped along as a children’s choir sang Chinese songs. Read more...