Saturday, May 9

Sexual suppression sustains social ills

As teenage pregnancy and abortion continue to damage U.S. youth, and Catholic priests are implicated in sex abuse scandals, a large segment of cultural critics have cited excessive sexuality and liberal sexual values as the source of the problem. Read more...


UCLA psychiatry professor dies

Herbert Weiner, professor emeritus at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, died Nov. 12 of lung cancer at his home in Encino. He was 81. Weiner was a psychiatry professor at UCLA from 1982 up until his retirement last year. Read more...


Biotechnology advances allow control of protein activity

Researchers at UCLA, in collaboration with scientists at Duke University and Sandia National Laboratories, have made an advance in modifying biochemical systems. In an article published in the November issue of Nature Materials, researchers reported that they could modify a naturally occurring protein by adding an on/off switch, which allows it to be deactivated by the addition of a single atom. Read more...



Briefs

UCLA professors named in list of “˜visionaries’ UCLA chemistry professor James R. Heath and neuroscientist Gary W. Small were named by Scientific American magazine as one of the “Scientific American 50″ visionaries in the world of research. Read more...