This post was updated June 29 at 1:25 a.m. It’s noon in the schoolyard, and laughing children swarm wooden play sets and build tunnels from plastic waffles that fit together like blocks. This is recess time at the UCLA Lab School, a pre-kindergarten through sixth grade institution nestled behind the UCLA Anderson School of Management. […]
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Research Recap: Breastmilk benefits, UC Drug Discovery Consortium and selfish genes
May 8 UCLA researchers publish a study in JAMA Pediatrics about the transfer of beneficial bacteria through breastmilk in 107 mother-infant pairs. Gut bacteria in the intestinal tract help digest food and condition the immune system for bacterial exposure. The study found 30 percent of a baby’s gut bacteria comes directly from breastmilk and 10 percent from the […]
Professor Neil Garg publishes kid-friendly organic chemistry book
Midway through his newly published book, Neil Garg poses a serious scientific question to his reader. “What’s a chemical in coffee that adults like so much?” The question is scrawled in chunky cartoon letters inside the children’s coloring book he created. An answer awaits on the opposite page: caffeine, a stimulant, its molecular structure rendered […]
UCLA students study acidification of kelp in Santa Monica Bay
One month ago, Ariel Pezner spent nine hours straight aboard a research vessel in the Santa Monica Bay, circulating the waves above an underwater kelp forest. Pezner, a fourth-year environmental science student, is part of a six-person student team studying ocean acidification in a rehabilitated forest of kelp off the coast of Palos Verdes, California. […]
BEAGLE program helps UCLA researchers decipher evolutionary histories
The rise of advanced genetic computing technology has transformed how we study evolution. Broad-platform Evolutionary Analysis General Likelihood Evaluator, a public evolutionary statistics library, allows researchers worldwide to collaborate on public health projects and clinical research at the intersection of biostatistics and evolutionary biology. Marc Suchard, a UCLA professor of biomathematics, biostatistics and human genetics, […]
New engineering club takes strides toward furthering space technology
Bruin Space is one of the newest student groups to reach for the stars – literally. The engineering club has taken over a circuit room on the roof of Boelter Hall, which students can find by stepping out of an elevator beneath the open sky. On the evening of March 1, the room buzzed with […]
UCLA community weighs in on impact of possible Affordable Care Act repeal
Congress voted to begin the process of undoing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act last week, the 2010 law which expanded and mandated health insurance for all U.S. citizens. President-elect Donald Trump, who will be inaugurated Friday as the nation’s 45th president, urged Congress last Tuesday to repeal and replace the act with Republican-backed […]