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Already a leader in the field, UCLA will collaborate with five of the nation’s other top cancer centers in the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy.

UCLA biochemists have devised a way to convert sugar into a variety of useful chemical compounds without using cells and that could lead to the production of biofuels and pharmaceuticals.

The research found that the phenomenon holds true around the world — and that when people hear two women laughing together, they are likely to assume the women are friends.

The new technique assesses how changes in a person’s immune response can help predict the effectiveness of a new therapy in people who have the most common and deadly type of brain cancer.

The new technique can accurately identify a person’s optimal drug and dose combinations throughout an entire course of treatment, without complex, time-consuming genetic analysis.

A new public service campaign will inform apartment tenants about the risks of secondhand smoke and provide tools for working with landlords on smoke-free policies.

New survey by the UCLA Luskin School’s Los Angeles Initiative, led by Zev Yaroslavsky, reveals the depth of financial insecurity among county residents.

UCLA researchers found that workouts, in addition to brain games, appear to trigger a protein that restores connections between neurons.

The approach can help physicians identify disorders that may have gone undiagnosed for years. UCLA has been a leader in using the test since 2012.

UCLA-led study finds that drugs commonly used to combat the condition actually increase the risk of fracture, meaning that taking them is worse than doing nothing at all.

The researchers found that an experimental drug called CD532, which changes the structure of a key protein, reduced the size of tumors in mice by 80 percent.

A pop-up exhibit showcasing the 2016 Hollywood Diversity Report published by UCLA’s Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies is traveling across the campus.

UCLA freshmen, sophomores and juniors from across the campus are being given a chance to win $15,000 and a yearlong research opportunity to pursue revolutionary, interdisciplinary research on the topic of the Internet.

Two-thirds of the Californians who didn’t have health insurance in 2014 were actually eligible for coverage, but many did not enroll because of the cost.

People who performed two tasks that combined seeing and hearing frequently show that vision influenced their hearing, and vice versa.

A new study by UCLA scientists shows that a long-held assumption might have actually impeded research on how to repair spinal cord injuries.

Thyrosim can be used by clinicians, researchers and educators to gauge the impacts of thyroid treatments and to develop more effective remedies for thyroid problems.

Technique developed at UCLA automatically readjusts drug-dose combinations to zero in on the most effective ones.

Denisovans, ancient hominids who lived alongside humans and Neanderthals, were first described in 2010 through DNA extracted from remains in a Siberian cave in 2008.

Funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine will support work to genetically engineer immune cells to fight cancer.

By temporarily inactivating a part of the brain involved in impulse control, the researchers discovered compelling evidence that humans are predisposed to be generous to others.

The research provides the first evidence that a mother’s cortisol patterns before conception influence the weight of her baby.

More than 1 in 9 people around the world do not have access to safe, clean drinking water, and the problem is expected to worsen due in part to climate change.

The animals, which are related to spiders and scorpions, “look terrifying, but are actually delicate, timid and afraid of you,” says UCLA doctoral candidate Kenneth Chapin.

The new building material called CO2NCRETE would be made from carbon captured from power plant smokestacks potentially eliminating a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions.