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...
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The World Health Organization defined “health” as a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being in 1948. Wendelin Slusser, the associate vice provost for the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center and an adjunct professor of medicine and public health, said her LiveWell podcast could make a difference in promoting WHO’s definition of health rather than the common notion that health is merely the absence of disease. Read more...
Photo: Wendelin Slusser, the associate vice provost for the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center and a UCLA professor of medicine and public health, hosts a podcast which aims to help listeners to live healthier lives. (Courtesy of Wendelin Slusser)
