Scientists at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have discovered that a certain metabolic molecule helps pluripotent stem cells mature faster.
This year’s total came from a record-high 61,740 donors, who showed their support for undergraduate scholarships, endowed professorships and graduate student fellowships.
A satellite launched from Vostochny, Siberia is expected to advance space sciences for years to come, said Shprits, the mission’s principal investigator.
UCLA biologists have found genetic evidence that supports keeping the gray wolf protected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which might rule this fall to remove it from the endangered list.
UCLA researchers find that while a majority of adults do not get a flu shot each year, Koreans and Vietnamese have highest rates, African-Americans lowest.
The findings by UCLA researchers suggest that both factors could increase women’s risk for aging-related diseases and contribute to increasing evidence of the biological clock’s variability.
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola returned to UCLA, his alma mater, to run an experimental workshop to test his concept for Live Cinema, a new kind of movie-making that combines the best of filmmaking, television and live theater.
The two-year, $2.15 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will fund research by April Pyle, Melissa Spencer and Huan Meng.
The research could improve scientists’ ability to understand health care, economics and the environment, and to glean much more pertinent insight from data.
Magali Delmas, an environmental economist at UCLA, has been focusing on finding the most effective strategies to motivate people to change their behavior and conserve electricity.
The associate director of the UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies says the bus rapid transit line serving the San Fernando Valley has in part been a victim of its own success.
In industrial and multi-family housing, the optimism of the past few years continued, according to a survey by the UCLA Anderson Forecast and the Allen Matkins law firm.
Lothar von Falkenhausen, associate director of the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA and professor of Chinese archaeology and art history, was elected as one of 33 new members of the American Philosophical Society.