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A UCLA report looks at why Latinas left their jobs in large numbers during the pandemic and strategies for bringing them back into the workforce.

A new study in mice suggests that adding iNKT cells to a stem cell transplant could reduce complication severity.

Luskin School professor Ian Holloway is among researchers working with health officials to develop evidence-based strategies.

With climate change, these dual exposures and related health problems will only increase, say researchers who studied the 2020 fire season.

The rover’s RIMFAX instrument, co-led by UCLA’s David Paige, has found unexpectedly tilted rock layers beneath the Jezero crater.

New research looks at the nexus of climate change, sleep and human immunity.

In California, more than half need extra assistance, but 4 in 10 of them aren’t getting it, UCLA research shows.

The Title VI awards will provide students with tuition assistance and living stipends, support teaching of languages, among other things.

Using common reagents in heated water, chemists can ‘behead’ and break down PFAS, leaving only harmless compounds behind.

By wrapping platinum-alloy crystals in tiny graphene “nanopockets,” scientists generated far more catalytic activity and power than expected.

Led by Amy Rowat, researchers have invented ‘edible microcarriers’ that could reduce the expense, time and waste required to produce cultured meat.

UCLA-led research projects that end-of-the-century storms will generate 200% to 400% more runoff in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

Most of these appointments will be in the four ethnic studies centers that make up the Institute of American Cultures.

UCLA professor Susan Perry and her team of researchers reveal their findings on capuchin monkeys and social integration.

Faculty with the Depression Grand Challenge have created a system for managing mental health that they hope can be scaled and customized.

Scientists have developed small molecules that protect the “quantumness” of qubits, an innovative step that could help to scale up processing power.

The two grant projects, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense, will be led by Dr. Jerzy Kupiec-Weglinski.

The research, co-authored by UCLA’s Marc Suchard, indicates the pandemic started with two separate jumps from animals to humans.

People could potentially live and work in lunar pits and caves with steady temperatures in the 60s.

Researchers have devised a method for more quickly predicting the performance of potential catalysts in fuel cells.

The Institute on Inequality and Democracy is among four organizations to receive funding from the Marguerite Casey Foundation.

Liberals and conservatives can have positive experiences when they talk politics over the video conferencing platform, a UCLA study shows.

The research is an important advance toward cell therapies that could restore sensation in people with spinal cord injuries.

Support for Democrats remains strong among Latinos, but swing voters could prove the difference in some contests, UCLA report shows.

Can drugs like psilocybin and ecstasy effectively treat depression, addiction and other conditions? UCLA researchers are working to find out.