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Women aren’t returning to use frozen eggs, study finds | Fast Company
More women are freezing their eggs, but few appear to be returning to use them, a new study found. The study was led by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and published last month in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. It found that the number of planned, elective egg freezing cycles increased exponentially between 2014 and 2021, jumping from 4,153 to 16,436. (UCLA’s Dr. Lindsay Kroener was quoted. Also: NPR.)
After the Eaton Fire, frustration, exhaustion, uncertainty | Los Angeles Times
Tim Kawahara, executive director of the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate, grew up in Altadena and his mother still lives there in a house that survived the fire. The rebuilding of Altadena is in the early stages, he said. With thousands of separate projects to push through the permitting process, and a construction workforce shortage compounded by immigration raids, the new Altadena is not yet on the horizon.
How new tariffs on drugs, trucks, furniture could impact consumers | Time
Kimberly Clausing, a professor of tax law and policy at the University of California, Los Angeles, tells Time that tariffs often make U.S. manufacturing more difficult, despite the Administration’s stated intention to boost domestic production and create jobs for Americans.
How a single protein rewires leukemia cells | Medical Xpress
Cancer cells are relentless in their quest to grow and divide, often rewiring their metabolism and modifying RNA to stay one step ahead. Now, researchers at the UCLA Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have identified a single protein, IGF2BP3, that links these two processes together in leukemia cells. The protein shifts how cells break down sugar, favoring a fast but inefficient energy pathway, while also altering RNA modifications that help produce the proteins leukemia cells need to survive and multiply. (UCLA’s Dr. Dinesh Rao and Gunjan Sharma were quoted. Also: Scienmag.)
This kind of homicide has more than doubled since 2010 | Medical Xpress
Nearly one-quarter of child and adolescent victims of firearm homicide were killed in their own homes from 2020-2021, including nearly two-thirds of child victims aged 12 and under, UCLA-led research finds … While mass shootings and community gun violence involving child and adolescent victims tend to garner the most attention, pediatric firearm homicides in the home remain understudied despite representing a major cause of child and adolescent mortality, said Dr. Jordan Rook, a resident in General Surgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the study’s lead author.
