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Studying human neural cells — as opposed to laboratory mice — was a key advance because the disease affects people and animals differently.

UCLA is among the world’s great research enterprises, testing boundaries and producing new knowledge on a daily basis, and the departure of one lab will not diminish our impact.

Dr. Edward De Robertis and Ernest Wright are the 42nd and 43rd current members of UCLA's faculty to receive the prestigious honor.

Now available for iPad, 'Plan ABC' lists birth control methods in order of effectiveness and is designed to provide women with current, medically accurate information.

Study is the first to identify bacteria's 'strategy' for forming the micro-colonies that become biofilms, which can cause seemingly routine bacterial infections to become lethal.

A strike by AFSCME patient care and service workers could involve more than 4,000 UCLA Health System and medical school employees, most of whom take care of patients and their families.

Each student received $1,000 for a public service project of their choice at a campus ceremony for family and friends.

Campus leaders said they appreciate Adidas' responsiveness to an outstanding labor issue

Findings from UCLA School of Dentistry researchers could pave the way toward new treatments for head and neck cancers.

UCLA scientists developed a way to program and control the shape of fluids flowing through pipes or conduits without the need to solve complex and time-consuming fluid-motion equations.

UCLA life scientists have identified a gene previously implicated in Parkinson's disease that can delay the onset of aging and extend the healthy life span of fruit flies.

With a simple push of an iPad button, UCLA physicians can send the robot gliding down the hall to a patient's room to perform an examination in real time.

Facebook was by far the most popular platform, followed by LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube -- particularly among those in private practice who perform cosmetic procedures.

Using virtual reality, neurophysicists have determined how environmental stimuli and brain rhythms generate our neuronal maps of the world.

Given the confidentiality that governs UCLA’s student conduct process, the university will not discuss specific cases in order to protect our students’ privacy.   In general, however, appeals of interim suspensions imposed by UCLA...

Those in underserved communities are not only at greater stroke risk, but they face more barriers to achieving healthy lifestyle changes, researchers say.

This study and others indicate a greater severity of addiction among female abusers, suggesting that new treatment approaches may be needed for girls and women.

Five students who devised a concept for providing affordable food to India's poor are in the running for an international prize.

UCLA scientists say people with body dysmorphic disorder, a condition in which they see themselves as disfigured even when they're not, have less-effcient brain connections.

Dashew, an inventor and entrepreneur who was instrumental in the founding of the Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars at UCLA, died April 25.

The Blum Center on Poverty and Health in Latin America will draw on UCLA's cross-disciplinary strengths and partnerships with other institutions to address key issues in the region.

Yancey, perhaps best known as the creator of "Instant Recess", an award-winning program dedicated to "making America healthier 10 minutes at a time," died April 23 of lung cancer.

The UCLA scholars are among 198 new fellows of the academy, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and policy research centers.

A multidisplinary UCLA research team will lead a national effort to determine within weeks, rather than years, if certain drug compounds hold promise for treating the disorder.

The research can help us better understand where to look for new meteroid debris that could potentially become dangerous to Earth.