UCLA researchers develop personalized medicine to treat cancer

A set of algorithms and graphs developed by UCLA researchers could help clinicians determine how much medicine a cancer patient needs to maximize tumor shrinkage. Doctors, professors and graduate students at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center began to devise an individualized method of treatment called phenotypic personalized medicine, or PPM, about 15 months ago that […]

Lab creates new biofuels to expand alternative energy sources

Paul Lin’s genetically engineered bacteria would have died if exposed to oxygen. Instead of handling the bacteria in open air, he sticks his hands into thick rubber gloves built into the side of a transparent tank, inspecting a test tube filled with clear yellow liquid. UCLA researchers have been using bacteria, microscopic organisms responsible for […]

UCLA team travels to Uganda to treat patients with obstetric fistula

Every year, a small city in Uganda transforms into a center of free surgery for patients who suffer a painful, unusual complication from childbirth – a hole torn between the birth canal and the bladder or rectum. Since 2009, Christopher Tarnay has traveled to Uganda for two weeks each year with a team of eight […]

Students aspire to level up in game design despite limited resources

Students substitute video game controllers and joysticks with food and live cacti at the UCLA Game Lab in Broad Art Center, while students across campus in the classrooms of Boelter Hall strap on virtual reality headsets to program imaginary environments for new video games. UCLA’s Design | Media Arts and computer science departments, as well […]

UCLA Grand Challenge reveals plan for environmental sustainability

The UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge project released a report Wednesday detailing its research plan to make Los Angeles more environmentally sustainable by 2050. The five-year plan outlines goals such as powering Los Angeles County entirely with renewable energy, switching to locally-sourced water supplies and increasing native biodiversity and ecosystem health. One objective aims to […]

‘Shtick not Shtigma’ targets misconceptions about mental illness

Charmee Taylor crawled across the Semel Auditorium stage on all fours and noisily slurped up a troop of imaginary ants marching her way as she imitated a depressed aardvark. Taylor is one of seven actresses in the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior’s “Shtick not Shtigma” improvisational comedy troupe, a group of young Los […]

Students plunge into ocean research through UCLA Marine Operations

A lone pelican skidded into the surface of the ocean, kicking up water droplets like a skier in fresh snow. Miles away from the coast of Los Angeles, Jeroen Molemaker’s research vessel bobbed on the waves of Santa Monica Bay, as student researchers tinkered with oceanographic technology onboard. The UCLA Marine Operations program, which allows […]