This post was updated April 4 at 10:58 p.m. UCLA researchers have developed the first wearable device to record the activity of individual neurons in a person’s brain while they move freely. Read more...
Photo: The Neuro-stack sits in a person’s hand. UCLA researchers have created a device that can record single-neuron activity during movement for research purposes. (Courtesy of Dejan Markovic)
Students are working to spread awareness and raise money to fund research for neuromuscular diseases through the Muscular Dystrophy Society at UCLA. Muscular dystrophies are rare muscle disorders that progressively weaken and break down skeletal muscles over time, leading to decreased strength, increased disability and potential physical deformities. Read more...
Photo: Mary Keushkerian, Lusin Yengibaryan, Angela Minasyan, Maral Chorbajian, Julieta Serobyan (left to right) are pictured. (Courtesy of Angela Minasyan)
UCLA Health received a $25.3 million, two-year grant from the state of California to expand the efforts of the Homeless Healthcare Collaborative program, which provides free mobile health care to the local population of people experiencing homelessness. Read more...
Photo: The Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center is pictured. UCLA Health recently received a $25.3 million, two-year grant to further the work of the Homeless Healthcare Collaborative Program. The program currently provides mobile health care to people experiencing homelessness in Westwood.(Daily Bruin file photo)
UCLA Health assembled a giant inflatable colon March 3 to engage and inform patients, Bruins and the local Westwood community on colon cancer in recognition of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month. Read more...
Photo: Dr. Fola May, director of UCLA’s Melvin and Bren Simon Gastroenterology Quality Improvement Program, stands in front of the giant inflatable colon at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. May said the colon is one of UCLA Health’s campaigns to raise colorectal cancer awareness. (Jeremy Chen/Assistant Photo editor)
Researchers at UCLA and the University of British Columbia have found that volunteering over 100 hours per year is associated with reduced biological age. Two people with the same chronological age can have different biological ages, which is a measure of how old your cells and tissues appear, according to Verywell Health. Read more...
Photo: (By Isabella Lee/Illustrations Director)
This post was updated March 9 at 3:38 p.m. UCLA experts said recently proposed revisions to blood donation restrictions for men who have sex with men are a step in the right direction, but that more could be done. Read more...
UCLA researchers collected data with the James Webb Space Telescope to characterize distant galaxies, revealing new information and challenging previously held ideas such as the age of the earliest galaxies. Read more...
Photo: The inside of the UCLA Planetarium is pictured. UCLA researchers used data from the James Webb Space Telescope to study distant galaxies more closely than before. (Shane Yu/Daily Bruin)
