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Science funding, immigration fuel America’s innovation | Los Angeles Times

Over the course of just three days recently, five scientists affiliated with the University of California won Nobel prizes for discoveries that can help us more effectively treat conditions such as multiple sclerosis and arthritis, clean pollutants from the atmosphere, capture drinking water from desert air, and help build the world’s most powerful quantum computers… But the symbiotic relationship between the federal government and our universities — one that has delivered so much for America, its people and its economy — is now at risk.  

Common viral infections can raise your risk of heart attack and stroke | CNN

“One way to prevent this is really vaccination,” said lead study author Kosuke Kawai, an adjunct professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. “Often, we get vaccinated to reduce the risk of influenza or other illnesses, but I think vaccines can provide additional benefit in terms of potentially protecting against cardiovascular disease.” (Also: HealthDay News and EuroNews.)

Women struggle on lung transplant list, experts say | HealthDay News

Women are less likely than men to find a donor lung, despite new systems to make organ allocation fairer, a new study says. Women were 32% less likely than men to receive a lung implant before the reforms went into effect in March 2023, researchers reported recently in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery … “There was a modest improvement in narrowing the gap, but we still have a lot of work to do,” senior researcher Dr. Abbas Ardehali, director of the UCLA Heart, Lung, and Heart-Lung Transplant Programs, said in a news release.  

L.A. tries hand in ‘secret Olympic sport’: managing traffic | KCRW 89.9-FM

“There was a concern just about being embarrassed by what a lot of people think is a pretty cool city having horrible traffic, terrible air pollution, and being seen as sort of dysfunctional,” says Brian Taylor, a UCLA professor of urban planning and an authority on transportation in California. He says the city knew it had to get its house in order before an international community of guests showed up.

Trump’s anti-trans agenda in sex education | The Guardian

Two other states, Alabama and South Dakota, said their Prep curricula never included the terminology referenced in the Trump administration’s letters. Collectively, these states are home to more than 120,000 trans people between the ages of 13 and 17, according to estimates by the Williams Institute [at the] UCLA School of Law.  

Miramax turning hit ‘Monster Mash’ into animated movie | Deadline

According to a recent UCLA study, Gen Z shows a growing interest in animation, with numbers rising from 42% last year to almost 49% this year.