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The UCLA study has important implications in an era of climate change.

The researchers identified genes that they believe control hundreds of other genes linked to Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, depression and several other disorders.

UCLA physics professor Joseph Rudnick recalls his father's bold experiment and result that verified a later theory that won three other physicists the 2016 Nobel Prize.

UCLA’s Leah Boustan looks at how the influx of millions of black workers from the South reshaped labor markets and neighborhoods in the North and West.

New recommendations are needed in part because people with cancer are living longer thanks to improved treatments, giving tumors more time to spread to other parts of the body.

The Marian Group formulates theoretical models of how materials will behavior under conditions that are nearly impossible to physically replicate, such as ultrafast heating, high-dose irradiation or very fast deformation rates.

Researchers found that exposure to the pollution caused mice to experience changes in the normal composition of gut bacteria. This in turn produced a cascade of negative health effects.

UCLA School of Nursing researchers found that people with a certain genetic variation who took donepezil for the condition had a faster cognitive decline than those who took a placebo.

The report examines hiring of women and minorities for 200 theatrical film releases in 2015, as well as 1,206 TV, cable and digital platform shows from 2014–15.

Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos has woven together his interests in global health, medicine and culture into a career as a medical anthropologist.

Professor Alex Hall’s research shows that, as temperatures warm in the Sierra Nevada, a deluge could overwhelm California’s patchwork network of dams and reservoirs that currently supplies 60 percent of the state's water.

A UCLA team creates a "smart" mobile tool that may be used to diagnose and treat serious infections and diseases.

The center will foster teaching, research and collaborations across campus and beyond the university that will direct historical insights to shaping policies and solving problems.

New UCLA-led research shows which strains of viruses that are transmitted depend on whether transmission occurs during pregnancy or through breastfeeding.

Aomawa Shields studies the climate on distant planets. But she also earned an M.F.A. from UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television and worked as an actress.

The percentage of black students who attend completely or almost-completely non-white schools has declined since the 1990s but remains above 70 percent.

Researchers at UCLA found the same types of abnormalities in the study’s e-cigarette users that are found in tobacco cigarette users. These abnormalities are associated with increased cardiac risk.

A UCLA-led team of scientists discovered a white dwarf star in the constellation Boötes whose atmosphere is rich in carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen.

The new protocol opens the door to researchers who want to make muscle, bone and cartilage cells in the lab; the scientists plan to study whether the method could be help treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

UCLA biologists are exploring ways to defeat antibiotic-resistant bacteria; a mathematical formula they created can help predict which combinations of drugs will be most effective.

UCLA researchers determined for the first time why some people with advanced melanoma or advanced colon cancer will not respond to pembrolizumab.

For generations, doctors told women who were born with complex congenital heart defects that the physical demands of pregnancy would be too difficult for them.

The report reveals that the natural cycle in commercial real estate appears to be running its course, somewhat independent of the results of the presidential contest.

Researchers precisely measured the coordinates of more than 23,000 atoms in a technologically important material.

The study is the first to evaluate the medication as a possible treatment for alcoholism.