As talk continues about a national high-speed rail system, four UCLA faculty members are researching the more local effects on station cities, especially in California.
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Britney Zavada answers the call from Be the Match to save a life
At a club meeting last year, Britney Zavada joined her friends and swabbed the inside of her cheek for DNA samples to be sent to the national bone marrow registry.
UCLA Loneliness Scale measures how lonely people are
With 20 quick and simple questions, UCLA-affiliated researchers can assess the extent of a person’s loneliness.
UCLA grad students bring art and science together as they restore artifacts at the Getty Villa
In a laboratory nestled inside the Getty Villa, art and science are an unusual but vital combination.
Coffee may reduce the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes in women, UCLA researchers say
For those who can’t survive without their morning coffee, there’s now a new reason to keep up with the habit.
According to a recent UCLA study, drinking about four cups of coffee a day could help protect against type 2 diabetes, the most common form of diabetes marked by high levels of glucose in the blood.
While this claim has circulated for several years, researchers Dr. Atsushi Goto and Dr. Simin Liu built on their previous research on diabetes to see if these theories had merit.
The research centers around a protein called sex hormone-binding globulin, which regulates the levels of the body’s sex hormones, estrogen and testosterone. These hormones may play a role in the development of type 2 diabetes, which also draws on family history and genetics.
It turns out coffee consumption decreases the levels of this protein.
“I think coffee, especially a moderate amount, could have an important effect,” Liu said. “It’s not a bad idea.”
UCLA professor discovers some of world’s oldest fossils
A faded blue arrow in the Geology Building points to a glass display case bearing a sign: “World’s Oldest Fossils.”
The information behind the glass explains it all ““ the rock specimens are from Australia and date back 3.5 billion years.
UCLA students interact with history and culture
On a typical day in the field, archaeology graduate student Anne Austin would wake up at 4 a.m.