A recently published UCLA study has identified interactions between genetics and environment that may affect disease susceptibility among individuals. Read more...
Photo: courtesy of ROSA CHEN Casey Romanoski, a graduate student, led a study analyzing how genetics and environment determine an individual’s susceptibility to disease.
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have completed the first full genomic sequencing of a brain cancer cell line. Read more...
Researchers at UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute and other organizations have published a new study on the structure of the bullet-shaped vesicular stomatitis virus, furthering the general understanding of disease treatment and promoting vaccine development. Read more...
Marijuana does, in fact, have the potential to alleviate a sprinkling of medical qualms, according to a series of studies completed on UC campuses over the last 10 years and recently presented to the California State Legislature. Read more...
Saliva sampling may lead to early diagnosis of highly lethal pancreatic cancer, according to a study by a multidisciplinary group of UCLA researchers. Read more...
Thirty or 40 years ago, the textbook for an evolutionary biology class would be thick with facts on the fossil record, comparative anatomy and taxonomy. Read more...
One doctor and six nurses have taken leave of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for a two-week relief mission to Haiti, where they will treat victims of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck the island nation on Jan. 12. Read more...
Photo: The team of UCLA physicians who are going to Haiti pose with administrators from the Ronald Reagan Medical Center on Friday, two days before their departure.
