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"It's hard to believe we're looking at an asteroid," said UCLA's David Jewitt. "Amazingly, its tail structures change dramatically in just 13 days as it belches out dust."

The Ronald A. Katz Center for Collaborative Military Medicine at UCLA, established by a gift from Todd and Randy Katz in honor of their father, is the first center of its kind on the West Coast.

UCLA researchers created a multisensory virtual world for rats that allowed them to study for the first time how navigation and the expectation of a reward are connected.

The online resource features nearly 2,000 digitized photographs, documents, maps, pamphlets and other archival resources and allows researchers to share their original work.

The drug, called MK-3475, which had already shown effectiveness in treating melanoma, shrank tumors in nearly a fourth of patients with non-small cell lung cancer.

UCLA Architecture and Urban Design has announced it will work with Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc. for its 2014–15 master of architecture II program known as SUPRASTUDIO.

The UCLA companies trace their roots to groundbreaking, federally funded university research conducted by engineering professor Aydogan Ozcan and physics professor Seth Putterman.

The report examines concussions that occurred among athletes aged 5 to 21 participating in a wide range of sports.

The team found that the thicker the leaf, the larger the size of the cells in nearly all of its tissues. But a leaf's surface area, whether tiny or huge, has no relation to cell size.

As the proportion of Californians with job-based insurance fell below 50 percent, public programs stepped in to pick up the slack, according to the report

In the absence of a coordinated global strategy, an estimated 20 million tons of plastic litter enter the ocean each year, researchers say.

Researchers found that the body's ability to control blood pressure, heart rate and sweating is weaker in people with sleep apnea but is even more diminished in women.

The research could help improve the design and environmental impact of reactors, which are used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other chemical products.

The gift, from collectors Jay T. and Deborah R. Last, includes 92 stunning wood and ivory figures, masks and tools made by the Lega people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Dr. Jody Heymann, an internationally renowned researcher on health and social policy, is among 70 new members and 10 foreign associates honored this year.

Using the clock, researchers can gauge the age of diverse human organs and tissues. Unexpectedly, they found some parts of the anatomy, like women's breast tissue, age faster than the rest of the body.

Researchers will examine how non-injected drugs and alcohol may directly interact with the virus and other infectious diseases to increase health threats.

The researchers analyzed subjects' brains using a branch of mathematics known as graph theory, which is often used to study air-traffic patterns.

During his tenure as UCLA chancellor, Albert Carnesale laid the foundation for a legacy of institutional transformation in the areas of research, teaching, community service and residential life.

While the overall number of kids who drink sodas daily has started to decline, there has been an alarming 8 percent jump in consumption among teens.

While only a third of laser hair-removal procedures are performed by non-physicians, 75 percent of hair-removal lawsuits involve non-physicians, said UCLA's H. Ray Jalian.

The centralized collection of scans and other key clinical data will help accelerate international research and the development of new treatments.

The university, which employs 42,000 people and indirectly supports another 53,000 jobs, generates $34 in economic activity for every $1 invested by California taxpayers.

A study led by UCLA's Dr. Gregg Fonarow found that hospitals recognized by the national Get With The Guildelines program showed greater achievement than others.

The two campuses, along with UC Irvine, will lead a network of 49 acute stroke centers in a series of clinical trials to improve stroke prevention and rehabilitation.