This post was updated Nov. 25 at 6:00 p.m. A new mathematical equation was recently discovered by UCLA mathematician and professor Terence Tao, and three physicists. Read more...
Photo: UCLA mathematician and professor Terence Tao, alongside three physicists, discovered an equation that simplifies the calculation of a mathematical statistic called an eigenvector. (Courtesy of Reed Hutchinson/UCLA)
This post was updated Dec. 6 at 2:34 p.m. Three UCLA researchers collectively received over $18 million to develop and conduct clinical trials for stem-cell-based treatments. Read more...
Photo: Sophie Deng (left), Yvonne Chen (center), and Caroline Kuo (right) collectively received over $18 million to develop clinical trials for personalized medical treatments. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
Maria Korcsmaros was training for a triathlon off the coast of Corona del Mar, California in 2016 when she was attacked by a 9- to 10-foot-long great white shark. Read more...
Photo: David McGuire (left), a marine biologist and the director of Shark Stewards, a national nonprofit shark advocacy group, and Maria Korcsmaros (right), the group’s Southern California chair and a shark attack survivor, spoke at a film screening Wednesday. (Alex Driscoll/Daily Bruin)
This post was updated Nov. 26 at 4:45 p.m. Campus Queries is a series in which Daily Bruin readers and staff present science-related questions for UCLA professors and experts to answer. Read more...
UCLA is one of the leading contributors in a nationwide effort to understand climate change. Public universities are instrumental to national comprehension of climate change and its effects, according to a new report by the National Council for Science and the Environment. Read more...
Photo: UCLA is one of the leading contributors in the nationwide effort to understand climate change and its consequences, according to a report from the National Council for Science and the Environment. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA Health has begun a $20 million fundraising campaign for researching lung disease. The initiative, which has collected $4.37 million for the Lung Health Research Accelerator Fund so far, will be used to create a new center for advanced lung disease at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, according to a press release published Thursday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Health has begun a $20 million fundraising campaign for lung disease research. The initiative’s funds will be used to create a center for advanced lung disease at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Nov. 20 at 7:47 p.m. A University of California professor and co-originator of genome editing technology Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats said researchers plan to expand the technology in order to increase human applications at a campus lecture series Thursday. Read more...
Photo: (Andrea Grigsby/Illustrations director)
