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UCLA Labor Center researchers found that COVID-19 has exacerbated difficulties for a population that so often works in the service jobs that have disappeared.

President Donald Trump and Republican candidates for Congress face an uphill battle in places hit hardest by the pandemic.

In the nearly half of U.S. states for which data was available, detentions outpaced population growth by a rate of 3 to 1 on average in recent years.

The advance will enable scientists to follow the precise path by which T cells are formed from blood stem cells inside the thymus.

The site’s creators hope that researchers and journalists will be able to use it to track the issues and stories around hate crimes.

The scientists were brought together by their shared belief that genetics could be a key to finding better approaches to the pandemic.

Since first appearing in 2011, #BCSM has been used on the social media platform more than 830,000 times.

Although minorities overall are becoming better represented in entertainment, that progress largely hasn’t touched Latinos.

Research brief: Even successfully treated HIV-infected adults are at increased of many diseases more commonly associated with aging.

The UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report suggests the industry must do more to meet the moment.

UCLA testing found that AMBMP allowed mouse muscles to work and grow the way healthy muscle cells do.

While COVID-19 spurs a desire for mailed ballots, research led by a UCLA professor suggests that mail-in results largely mirror in-person outcomes.

The research opens up the possibility of using drugs that simulate viruses to overcome immunotherapy resistance in melanoma.

A new UCLA report is intended to dispel a common misconception that immigration policy is a top-of-mind issue for Latino voters.

Research brief: The new screening method looks for particular bits of DNA that have been shed by the placenta and entered the mother's blood.

Spanning medicine, math and nanomaterials, support for campus scientific studies has grown almost 40% in five years.

The director of the Keck Observatory writes about how the UCLA astrophysicist overcame the doubters en route to her Nobel Prize.

The findings are published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

The new platform, called SwabSeq, can pool thousands of individual test samples and return accurate results in less than a day.

In a survey by UCLA and United Food and Commercial Workers OUTreach, most said their local unions take action to protect LGBTQ members.

Librarians and staff will share their expertise at events designed to help students, faculty and others flourish in their work and advance knowledge. 

Movie studios can expect to lose up to $130 million per film when authentic diversity is absent from their storytelling, a UCLA report shows.

Ghez, who received the prize for her research into black holes, is the eighth UCLA faculty member to be named a Nobel laureate.

Dust from as far away as Saudi Arabia is carried by winds to the Himalayan snowpack, where it accelerates glacial warming and snowmelt, scientists say.

A UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy report tracks the state’s history of restricting and expanding the franchise.