Tag Archive for: UCLA Life Sciences

A photo collage: from left, top row: Elaine Hsiao, Andrea Ghez, Sarah Stein. From left, bottom row: Heather Adams and Lynn Vavreck.

UCLA College Celebrates International Women’s Day

On International Women’s Day we give a shout-out to five…

Professor Seeks to Provide All Students with a Pathway to Research Success

When Tracy Johnson was an undergraduate working in a lab…

Esmeralda Villavicencio Is Working to Make Disease and Infertility a Thing of the Past

UCLA College division of Life Sciences student Esmeralda Isabel…
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Michelle Craske to share how research can inform anxiety and depression treatment

For more than three decades, Michelle Craske has been trying…
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First childhood flu helps explain why virus hits some people harder than others

Why are some people better able to fight off the flu than…
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Hundreds of UCLA students publish paper analyzing 1,000 genes involved in organ development

A team of 245 UCLA undergraduates and 31 high school students…
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UCLA psychology department receives $30 million from Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation

UCLA has received a $30 million commitment from the Anthony…
Photo of group of volunteers at first mobile health clinic.

Student launches mobile health clinic to increase access to care

On a sunny autumn Saturday at the Southeast-Rio Vista YMCA…

Chronic opioid treatment may raise risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, study finds

While opioids are often prescribed to treat people with trauma-related…
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Meet UCLA Student Researcher Julia Nakamura

Meet fourth-year UCLA student researcher Julia Nakamura! Julia…