October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month. Chris Mattmann, the chief data and artificial intelligence officer at UCLA, sat down with science and health editor Shaun Thomas to discuss AI in cybersecurity, cyberthreats and deepfakes. Read more...
Photo: Kerckhoff Hall is pictured. DTS is located on campus at Kerckhoff Hall. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Former UCLA professor Omar Yaghi awarded Nobel Prize in chemistry. Read more...
Photo: Omar Yaghi, a former professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA, is pictured. Yaghi joined Fred Ramsdell as members of the UCLA community to be awarded a Nobel Prize in the 2025 award cycle. (Courtesy of Reed Hutchinson/UCLA)
This post was updated Oct. 12 at 9:22 p.m. UCLA experts and medical professionals warned that unproven claims made by the White House linking the use of Tylenol during pregnancy to the development of autism promotes misinformation. Read more...
Photo: Acetaminophen, an over-the-counter pain reliever commercially known as Tylenol, is pictured. Many UCLA experts and medical professionals warned that unproven claims made by the White House linking the use of Tylenol during pregnancy to the development of autism promotes misinformation. (Zimo Li/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Oct. 9 at 10:45 p.m. Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars said they are uncertain about the future of their pay and employment following the federal government’s cuts to UCLA’s research funding. Read more...
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Fred Ramsdell became the ninth UCLA alumnus to receive the Nobel Prize Monday. Ramsdell, who earned his doctorate in microbiology and immunology from UCLA in 1987, received the 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine alongside Mary Brunkow and Shimon Sakaguchi – who hail from the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, and Osaka University in Japan – for discoveries related to immune regulation. The trio helped uncover how the gene Foxp3 directs the development of regulatory T cells – specialized immune cells that prevent the body from becoming overactive and attacking its own tissues, according to the scientific journal Nature. Read more...
Photo: The Molecular Sciences building, which houses the department of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, is pictured. Fred Ramsdell, who earned his doctorate in microbiology and immunology from UCLA, received the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine Monday for his work related to immunology. (Andrew Ramiro Diaz/Photo editor)
This post was updated Oct. 7 at 6:06 p.m. Only around 6% of active physicians across the country are Hispanic. Because of that disparity, Latinos in Surgery – a student organization founded at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine – encourages Latino medical students to not only pursue medicine but also enter its most competitive surgical specialties. Read more...
Photo: Jose Segura-Bermudez, Alejandra Lopez Macha and Victor Arechiga – the three co-founders of Latinos in Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine – are pictured from left to right. (Zimo Li/Daily Bruin senior staff)
This post was updated Oct. 3 at 12:23 a.m. The start of the fall quarter marks shorter and cooler days with less sunlight, but UCLA dermatologists recommend applying sunscreen daily, regardless of the season. Read more...
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