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We’re closer to offsetting mercury risks of fish | San Francisco Chronicle
Researchers at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UCLA say they have engineered a probiotic bacterium that could one day help shield people, especially pregnant women, from the toxic effects of mercury-laden seafood … “We envision the possibility that people could take a probiotic to offset the risk of consuming too much methylmercury, especially when pregnant,” said Elaine Hsiao, co-senior author and microbiome researcher at UCLA, in a statement.
Trump targets undocumented students’ in-state tuition | Inside Higher Ed
The order also doesn’t directly say states or institutions with such laws will lose any federal funding, noted Ahilan Arulanantham, professor from practice at the UCLA School of Law and co-director of the law school’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy. Still, the order’s threatening tone toward sanctuary cities’ federal funds could be “a window into where this fight could go if the federal government wants to expend significant political capital on this issue,” Arulanantham said.
DOJ moves to halt states from taking climate action | Associated Press
Ann Carlson, an environmental law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who has previously consulted on climate litigation, said this week’s lawsuits look “like DOJ grasping at straws,” noting that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said his agency is seeking to overturn a finding under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.
Eaton fire’s impact in West Altadena | KABC-TV
Based on census and Cal Fire data, a UCLA study found that Altadena’s black households were 1.3 times more likely to experience destruction or major damage from the Eaton fire than others … Study co-author Paul Ong says a factor is the path of the fire. “The path went down the western part of Altadena. That’s a part where African-Americans have been concentrated. It may have to do with complex weather patterns,” [said Ong.] (approx. 2:50 mark).
This new treatment is transforming prostate cancer care | WebMD
“The best use is stage four metastatic,” said Dr. Jeremie Calais, who heads the Clinical Research Program of the Ahmanson Translational Theranostics Division at UCLA. When the cancer has spread and surgery is no longer an option, theranostics delivers radiation body-wide, targeting cancer at multiple sites. ”The central paradigm is ’see what you treat and treat what you see.’”
What causes RFK Jr.’s strained and shaky voice? | The Conversation
(Column by UCLA’s Dr. Indu Subramanian) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has attracted a lot of attention for his raspy voice, which results from a neurological voice disorder called spasmodic dysphonia.
How California’s farmers can recharge the aquifers they’ve drained | Grist
Since 2000, the U.S. Southwest has been in the driest 25-year period the region has seen in over a millennium, according to researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, who found that climate change has supercharged these dry conditions.
