Associate professor builds connections between ant nests, human architecture

The secret to creating a building that will foster productive social interaction may lie in the nests of ants. Noa Pinter-Wollman, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA, outlined a new field that integrates architecture and evolutionary biology in a special edition of a prestigious scientific journal published by the Royal Society […]

UCLA researcher Lili Yang receives $1.4M grant to develop cancer treatment

A UCLA researcher was awarded $1.4 million to further develop a stem cell-based cancer treatment. Lili Yang, a researcher from the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, received the grant Thursday from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine’s Quest Awards Program to develop her method of genetically […]

Professor Judea Pearl codes languages to challenge paradigms of computer science

Judea Pearl’s fourth-grade teacher and classmates insisted he was wrong. They were convinced the area of a kilometer-length square was a thousand square meters, not a million like Pearl said. Pearl was unphased: He thought his teacher had made a mistake. Two days later, she apologized. “That was when I first started questioning authority,” he […]

UCLA doctor suspended after allegations of sexual harassment at prior job

A UCLA cardiologist had his medical license suspended due to allegations of sexual harassment when he worked at the Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. An administrative law judge ruled this week that Guillermo Andres Cortes, a doctor at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and former doctor at the L.A. County-USC Medical Center, would pose […]

Clinical trials for new lung cancer treatment at UCLA receives $12M grant

UCLA researchers received a $12 million grant to start clinical trials of a new treatment for advanced-stage lung cancer. The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, an organization that funds stem cell research to accelerate advances in medicine, awarded the grant to the labs of Steven Dubinett, the director of the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center’s […]

Researchers respond to activists, defend use of animals in studies

Michele Basso, a UCLA professor of neurobiology, said she struggles with the moral dilemma of animal research every day. “The day it stops bothering me is the day that I quit,” she said. Basso uses monkeys to study cognitive impairments in patients with Parkinson’s disease. Measuring the monkeys’ neural activity helps researchers understand the cognition […]

Activists protest UCLA’s use of animals in laboratory research at Murphy Hall

An animal rights protester at UCLA flipped over his dog’s scarred ear to reveal a black tattoo that was used to identify him as a test animal in a cosmetics laboratory. The dog walked with animal rights groups Progress for Science, In Defense of Animals, Los Angeles for Animals and Liberation Los Angeles on Friday […]