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UCLA cancer researchers win $2 million | Los Angeles Business Journal

UCLA Health researchers at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have recently won a pair of grants worth in total nearly $2 million to continue development of drug therapies targeting lung cancer and melanomas. (UCLA’s Roger Lo and Arjan Gower were cited and quoted.)

L.A. wildfire victims building ADUs as first step in home rebuilding process | Los Angeles Daily News and Orange County Register

The financial aspects of ADU construction present challenges, such as whether a bank would be willing to issue a second loan for an ADU if the homeowner already has a primary mortgage, said Dana Cuff, director of cityLAB-UCLA and a co-author of the landmark ADU ordinance that became law in 2017. But, Cuff said, building ADUs in the fire zones “makes sense.”

Amid backlash, Trump team ramps up its trolling | Los Angeles Times

Ramesh Srinivasan, founder of the University of California Digital Cultures Lab, which studies the connections between technology, politics and culture, said the mean-spirited posts and gleeful deportation jokes are part of a deliberate trolling campaign by the Trump administration. “The saddest part of all of this is it mirrors how DHS is acting in real life,” he said.

Judge limits part of court order blocking election overhaul | Associated Press

“If there are two partially overlapping orders, the effect of changing one of them would not change what is binding in the other,” said Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Who’s in ICE detention in California? | San Bernardino Sun

The lack of clarity in the data the agency releases is no accident, according to Graeme Blair, an associate professor of political science at UCLA. “ICE in particular does not want to release this information,” he said. The agency’s traditional lack of transparency has been a concern for Blair, and is now heightened by Trump’s return to office.

Immigration crackdown causing labor shortages | CBS News

A report in March from the UCLA Anderson Forecast found that a rise in “deportations will deplete the construction workforce” statewide. “For single-family and smaller (non-high rise) multi-family development, the loss of workers installing drywall, flooring, roofing and finishing will directly diminish the level of production,” the report found.

The political legacy of Jerry Garcia | New York Times

(Commentary by UCLA’s Jim Newton) Jerry Garcia, the iconic frontman for the Grateful Dead, remains, nearly 30 years after his death, a revered figure, singular in his approach to life and art.

Colbert is latest casualty of late-night TV’s fade-out | Reuters

“It’s a completely new world that artists and writers and journalists are living in, and it’s scary,” said Tom Nunan, a veteran film and TV producer who is co-head of the producers program at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. “When the news came in about Colbert, we were shocked but not surprised.”

The biggest K-Pop band to top the charts isn’t even real | Wall Street Journal

The success of “KPop Demon Hunters” shows it is possible for fans to connect with nonhuman idols, said Suk-Young Kim, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has written a book about K-pop. It will likely spawn copycats. ”This is a long-running dream for K-pop companies,” Kim said. “Here we have idols who never sleep, never get sick, never age.”

Otsuka’s PTSD combination treatment faces challenge | Reuters

“The big question for me is knowing that antipsychotics can cause real problems, especially with long-term use, and the modest benefit that the combination treatment potentially can offer,” said panelist Walter Dunn, assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at University of California, Los Angeles.

Link between gut bacteria, genes in colitis flare-ups | Los Angeles Times

“This study is helpful in demonstrating a specific example — a genetic variant and a microbial signal — that leads to inflammation,” said Dr. Jonathan Jacobs, a gastroenterologist and microbiome researcher at UCLA who was not involved with the study. “That’s exciting,” he said, because it offers a clear mechanism that ties together many of the risk factors scientists have long observed in inflammatory bowel disease.

Eating foods in this order could help with weight loss | Fox News

Elevated blood sugar levels (known as hyperglycemia) after meals can increase an individual’s risk for type 2 diabetes, according to a UCLA report. Controlling blood sugar levels can help benefit the treatment of diabetes and obesity.

Filipino sailors dock in Mexico … and help invent tequila? | The Conversation

(Commentary by UCLA’s Stephen Acabado) In recent years, scholars studying how Indigenous communities responded to colonialism and global trade networks have begun to look more closely at the Pacific world. One key focus is the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade route, which linked Asia and the Americas for 250 years, from 1565 to 1815.