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“Our ultimate goal is to be able to regenerate cardiomyocytes after an injury like a heart attack,” Dr. Reza Ardehali said. “But we’re first trying to learn from the embryonic heart.”

Researchers also explored the influence of gender and whether playing sports and video games is correlated with driving skills.

UCLA researcher Steven Mittelman’s work could change not just how doctors treat leukemia, but how they treat other cancers that are also fed by fat.

Dr. Huda Zoghbi helped identify a gene mutation that causes Rett syndrome, a genetic disorder leading to loss of language and motor skills, primarily in young girls.

UCLA professor says in new book, “Satan in the Bible, God’s Minister of Justice,” that Satan was not originally presented as the implacable enemy of God.

UCLA professor of musicology David MacFadyen is a champion of blockchain and how it could influence the future study and scholarship in arts and literature.

Climate scientist Alex Hall will embark on a three-week, 1,000-mile, two-wheel trek on a mission of educating, learning and engaging with the public.

Sociologist Aliza Luft writes about the powerful economic forces people can use to alleviate violent oppression.

UCLA is tied for third in the number of people honored this year by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which selects early-career scientists who are rising stars of science.

The chancellor reaffirms UCLA’s commitment to impassioned debate that values reasoned debate over intentionally mean-spirited provocation.

The five-year project funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will involve three projects to investigate factors that accelerate and prevent the re-emergence of HIV.

The authors’ goals are to influence policymakers, clinicians, educators and health researchers.

Wenzel, also a former assistant dean of what was then the UCLA School of Medicine, died in Los Angeles of natural causes on Jan. 31. She was 96.

Chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy fights disease by bolstering the body’s own natural defenses. Josh Feldman, diagnosed with lymphoma after returning from his honeymoon, knows the difference it can make.

To better assist other universities with these major initiatives, UCLA has released a report offering guidance.

Reports about the survey findings seek to provide information about Iran that does not currently exist in the public sphere.

“If the results ... are replicated in future studies, the methods we used could potentially give clinicians a new predictive tool,” said UCLA doctoral student Nicco Reggente.

In his speech at Royce Hall, Rahm Emanuel focused on education, criminal justice and business.

A UCLA-led study finds that the so-called “selfish” gene acts to remove cholesterol from blood vessels.

The biennial exhibition, which begins June 3 and runs through Sept. 2, focuses primarily on emerging artists.

As part of Black History Month, UCLA’s ‘Why History Matters’ event series bears witness to stories of black women.

UCLA hosted California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon’s lecture series featuring three artists talking about how their work responds to and shapes their worlds.

Their technique would enable an average biochemistry laboratory to make its own sequences for only about $2 per gene, far less than the $50 to $100 per gene commercial vendors charge.

Pope Francis selects dean of the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies to join international cadre of scholars.

Hong shares what it was like to run a leg in the torch relay for the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and the future of robot athletics.