UCLA researchers led a study to identify the first two genetic mutations related to Tourette syndrome, which scientists say is significant progress in understanding the disease. In the study published June 21, the researchers compared genetic data from those with and without Tourette syndrome. They found that people with the disease were more likely to […]
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Bill Klug Memorial Scholarship Fund created in memory of professor
The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science created a new scholarship in honor of a professor killed in a shooting on campus last year. Chancellor Gene Block announced the Bill Klug Memorial Scholarship Fund in a campus-wide email on the anniversary of June 1 murder-suicide. The scholarship will support undergraduate students in mechanical […]
UCLA researchers observe faraway galaxies with GLASS project
UCLA researchers are examining the origins of the universe’s oldest galaxies through a joint project with NASA. The Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space uses NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to collect data about elements in faraway galaxies, said Tommaso Treu, principal investigator of the project and a physics and astronomy professor at UCLA. GLASS researchers published […]
UCLA researchers develop lab test to expand gonorrhea treatment
UCLA scientists developed a new laboratory test that will expand antibiotic treatment options for patients with gonorrhea. Physicians began to use ceftriaxone to treat gonorrhea after the drug ciprofloxacin developed a resistance to the disease in the late ’90s and early 2000s. However, UCLA researchers wanted to expand the potential to use the drug ciprofloxacin […]
New digital humanities summer class to offer hands-on analyses of LA
UCLA will offer a new interdisciplinary course involving hands-on projects and fieldwork in Los Angeles this summer. Students registered in summer sessions can apply to Digital Humanities 30: “Los Angeles Tech City: Digital Technologies & Spatial Justice” until July 2. The five-unit course offers a combination of technology, design and urban humanities studies through hands-on […]
Gene Block, Jerry Kang weigh in on UC finance allocations, free speech
Chancellor Gene Block meets with the Daily Bruin Editorial Board every quarter to discuss issues affecting the campus and to explain administrative policies. At their meeting Wednesday, Block, joined by Vice Chancellor of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Jerry Kang, addressed the list of demands by the Afrikan Student Union, the University of California cap on […]
UCLA research helps expand use of drug to treat liver cancer
UCLA researchers helped test the first drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat liver cancer in 10 years. They found through clinical trials that the drug, regorafenib, increased overall liver cancer patient survival period from a median of 7.8 months to 10.6 months. Currently, advanced liver cancer has no cure. The FDA […]