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Funding pulled for virus vaccine research | LAist 89.3-FM’s “AirTalk”
“There’s one really key point here that we should fill in everybody about, which is it’s not just the convenience and speed with which these vaccines can be designed and redesigned. It’s actually a whole aspect of immunity,” said UCLA’s Dr. Otto Yang (approx. 8:20 mark).
Do you have long COVID? Depends whom you ask | HealthDay News
The definition of long COVID varies so widely that the percentage of people identified as having the ailment can differ dramatically, making it harder to properly diagnose and treat patients, researchers said. “The findings highlight the need for a standard definition for long COVID,” lead researcher Lauren Wisk, an assistant professor of medicine at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, said in a news release.
Cream may prevent parasitic worms from getting under skin | Medical Xpress
Threadworms, which are a type of parasitic nematode, spend a lot of time crawling around on human skin, poking and prodding to find the best place for entry before burrowing in. But disrupting a particular dopamine-sensing pathway causes them to lose interest, UCLA neurobiologists said in a paper published in Nature Communications. (UCLA’s Elissa Hallem and Ruhi Patel were quoted.)
Will Newsom’s ambitions save UCLA from giving in? | Los Angeles Times
UCLA is the “people’s university,” as Zev Yaroslavsky puts it. He’s a former L.A. County supervisor and current director of the Los Angeles Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. “There is a difference between a Harvard and a UCLA, or UC Berkeley or UC San Diego or University of Michigan,” he said, and if the president managed to extract his pound of flesh, “it would bankrupt the No. 1 public university in the United States.”
Fears grow about Trump and the Olympics | Los Angeles Times
“Based on everything that has happened so far ... I think you would have to be irrational not to worry about a worst case scenario [during the Games], where federal troops are effectively forcing poor people on the street to relocate to what is essentially a detention center somewhere out of sight,” said Gary Blasi, a professor emeritus at UCLA School of Law and a leading homelessness researcher.
Is it possible to reprogram your subconscious mind? | Independent
There are only certain things you can change in the subconscious, though, Dr. Dan Siegel, executive director of the Mindsight Institute and co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center at UCLA, tells me.
