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Infant with SCID living normal life, thanks to UCLA clinical trial | NBC News
“It’s a one-time delivery vehicle that takes the gene into the DNA of the stem cell, so every time it divides to make other cells, those cells carry that ADA gene,” said Dr. Donald Kohn, a pediatric bone marrow transplant physician at UCLA’s Broad Stem Cell Research Center, who led the trial.
UCLA to receive $2.5 million for housing program | Los Angeles Times
The new Master of Real Estate Development Program at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs has received a $2.5-million commitment to support its affordable housing program. The pledge comes from Jeffrey Jaeger and Scott Alter, co-founders and principals of Standard Communities, a Los Angeles–based real estate company dedicated to building and preserving affordable and workforce housing nationwide. (UCLA’s Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris and Greg Morrow were quoted.)
SCOTUS poised to weaken Voting Rights Act | KCRW 89.9-FM’s “Press Play”
“It seems pretty clear from the oral argument that the Voting Rights Act is going to be at least weakened. It doesn’t mean that the court is necessarily going to strike it down as unconstitutional, like it did with a different part of the Voting Rights Act in the Shelby County case in 2013,” said UCLA’s Rick Hasen.
The other president who tried to force migrants to leave | New York Times
The program was called “repatriation.” But Leo Grebler, an economics professor at UCLA, has described the removals as a “huge twilight zone between voluntary and forced migration.”
The best time to whiten your teeth, according to dentists | NBC’s “Today”
Dr. Julie Kim agreed. In fact, if you have any dental issues, including plaque or gum irritation, a whitening procedure might further compromise your oral health, said Kim, who is an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA School of Dentistry.
