UCLA researchers found that requiring health insurers to cover adult vaccinations at pharmacies could prevent unnecessary deaths from diseases such as influenza, pneumonia and HPV, according to a study published Thursday. Read more...
Photo: California’s adult vaccination rates are far lower than federal recommendations, according to a study by UCLA researchers. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA Health hospitals were ranked No. 7 in the nation by a U.S. News & World Report ranking released Tuesday. The report also ranked UCLA Health No. Read more...
Photo: UCLA Health hospitals ranked 7th in the country out of the 4,500 hospitals that were evaluated. (Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA doctors received $9.3 million to help reduce the cost of prostate cancer treatment across California. The state of California awarded the grant to doctors in the UCLA urology department last week. Read more...
Photo: Doctors in the UCLA urology department received $9.3 million to fund the Improving Access, Counseling and Treatment for Californians program, an organization that provides free prostate cancer treatment to men in California who are underinsured or uninsured. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Researchers at the Eli & Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine & Stem Cell Research at UCLA have identified the genes responsible for repairing damaged blood vessel linings, according to a UCLA press release. Read more...
Photo: Researchers at UCLA identified a gene that is necessary for blood vessel lining regeneration. (Amy Dixon/Photo editor)
The secret to creating a building that will foster productive social interaction may lie in the nests of ants. Noa Pinter-Wollman, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA, outlined a new field that integrates architecture and evolutionary biology in a special edition of a prestigious scientific journal published by the Royal Society that will be published later this month. Read more...
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UCLA researchers found that people from different parts of the world are able to differentiate between real laughter and fake laughter. The study, which was published Wednesday, observed 884 participants from 21 countries across six continents. Read more...
Photo: Greg Bryant, an associate professor in the department of communication, has been studying the nature of laughter for almost 10 years. His newest research built off a previous study he led in 2014 that indicated people could determine whether or not a laugh is genuine. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Chemistry students can now visualize 3D chemical structures by scanning a QR code with their smartphones. A team of undergraduate students developed an online tool, QR Chem, which provides QR codes that provide a link to a 3D image of a molecule. Read more...
Photo: Rising fourth-year biology and cognitive science student Shawn Schwartz shows off QR Chem, a website on which students can visualize chemical molecular structures by scanning QR codes on their phones. (Joe Akira/Daily Bruin)
