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The gift will providing resources for early-career scientists pursuing discoveries in the understanding and treatment of irritable bowel disease.

The gift will help establish a graduate fellowship and name a dedicated study space for chemistry and biochemistry students.

UCLA researchers discovered that these patients had a number of unmet psychological and health information needs, particularly during the first three months after their diagnoses.

If the findings are replicated, measuring levels of interleukin 6 could help doctors decide which patients with depression would be best suited for treatment with ECT.

The advance shows great promise for helping the body’s immune system seek out and destroy cancer cells.

Center for Neighborhood Knowledge report provides a snapshot of lingering inequality since the 1960s.

The psychology professor says women can tap into their “uniquely female power” to make life decisions — decisions that will help them to choose mates, avoid danger, compete with female rivals and produce healthy children.

“It will take a lot of work, but 100 percent local water is possible by 2050,” said Mark Gold, one of the authors of the report.

UCLA study, which was based on an analysis of the most effective approaches to paid family and medical leave, shows how unpaid leave undermines economic growth.

The fifth annual study analyzed the casts of and talent behind the top 200 theatrical releases of 2016 and 1,251 broadcast, cable and digital platform television shows from 2015–16.

In experiments the device produced 30 percent better capacitance — the measure of a device’s ability to store an electric charge — for its mass compared to the best available electrode made from similar materials.

The announcement coincides with a lead gift of $30 million — the largest in the museum’s history — from Lynda and Stewart Resnick.

If replicated in larger studies, the findings could lead to new types of programs to improve mental agility in older adults by combining mental training with physical fitness.

The yearlong partnership provides graduate students with opportunities to create new narratives to engage audiences with research.

Results from the evaluation of 14 estuaries along the Pacific coast of the United States will help to inform policy on conservation of wetlands.

“Our ultimate goal is to be able to regenerate cardiomyocytes after an injury like a heart attack,” Dr. Reza Ardehali said. “But we’re first trying to learn from the embryonic heart.”

Researchers also explored the influence of gender and whether playing sports and video games is correlated with driving skills.

Dr. Huda Zoghbi helped identify a gene mutation that causes Rett syndrome, a genetic disorder leading to loss of language and motor skills, primarily in young girls.

The five-year project funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will involve three projects to investigate factors that accelerate and prevent the re-emergence of HIV.

The authors’ goals are to influence policymakers, clinicians, educators and health researchers.

Chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy fights disease by bolstering the body’s own natural defenses. Josh Feldman, diagnosed with lymphoma after returning from his honeymoon, knows the difference it can make.

“If the results ... are replicated in future studies, the methods we used could potentially give clinicians a new predictive tool,” said UCLA doctoral student Nicco Reggente.

A UCLA-led study finds that the so-called “selfish” gene acts to remove cholesterol from blood vessels.

The biennial exhibition, which begins June 3 and runs through Sept. 2, focuses primarily on emerging artists.

Their technique would enable an average biochemistry laboratory to make its own sequences for only about $2 per gene, far less than the $50 to $100 per gene commercial vendors charge.