The research provides the first direct evidence of the proteins moving through PTEX, the protein complex that transports malaria proteins into the red blood cell.
The findings open the door to future study about whether specific interventions, such as changes to diet, could affect brain function and thus affect the desire to overeat or to eat when not hungry.
Conference held on campus focused on re-framing immigration and migration through the perspectives of the people who are moving and also creating tools for educators.
Dr. Daniel Lu, the study’s lead author, said the benefit lasted for two to four weeks, suggesting that the spinal cord’s neural circuitry retains a ‘memory’ of the treatment.
They can be forced to move far from their social and medical networks to find rentals they can afford; they may end up in substandard housing; or — at worst — homeless, the paper’s authors say.
A UCLA team has developed a set of outcome measures using a software program that aggregates the latest research and expertise about how to treat conditions.
The research, the first of its kind, also suggested that two new tests could help diagnose the condition, called autoimmune pulmonary alveolar proteinosis.
Walter Thompson-Hernández applies lessons from being a lifelong Bruin to his help make sure his multimedia stories illuminate subcultures and don’t exploit them.
“World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean,” an exhibition that challenges fixed and familiar notions of places like Africa, opens Oct. 21.