The University of California will not renew its subscription with the world’s largest scientific publisher, a University press release announced Thursday. The UC and Elsevier, which owns over 2,500 journals such as Cell and The Lancet, were unable to come to an agreement regarding publishing fees and subscription costs after months of negotiations. The UC’s […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
Despite recent cold front, LA is still experiencing trend toward warmer weather
Los Angeles’ climate is getting warmer, not colder, despite snow, lower temperatures and increased precipitation this month. This February has been the coldest in nearly 60 years, with the average temperature in LA this month falling five degrees lower than the normal average. However, Neil Berg, associate director of science at UCLA’s Center for Climate […]
Immunotherapy drugs seem effective in UCLA trials treating recurrent cancers
UCLA researchers found administering a drug that harnesses the body’s immune system to brain cancer patients both before and after surgery could effectively treat recurrent cancer. In a study published Feb. 11 in Nature Medicine, researchers showed patients who received the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab before and after surgery lived almost twice as long as patients […]
School of law panel discusses racial, economic discrimination in health care access
A resident physician, a nonprofit founder and a lawyer debated national health care accessibility with prospective law and medical students at an event Monday. The panelists offered perspectives on the roles of race, poverty and justice in health care access from their respective areas of expertise at the UCLA School of Law event. They discussed […]
UCLA professors conduct research on effects of Woolsey fire on local ecosystems
UCLA professors are conducting a field research study to examine how wildfire severity affects species native to the Santa Monica Mountains. Brad Shaffer, a distinguished professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, and Jon Keeley, an adjunct professor in the department of ecology and evolutionary biology, are researching the effect of the Woolsey […]
Virtual reality testing on rats to reveal insights into human brain
UCLA researchers are developing virtual reality for rats to better understand human spatial perception. Researchers in the lab of Mayank Mehta, a professor of neurology and neurobiology, placed rats in small cylindrical containers and used a projector to simulate a cubical room with distinct visual patterns on each wall. Rats moved on a spherical treadmill […]
UCLA study finds that benefits of robotic surgery outweigh costs
Robotic surgery is expensive but its long-term health benefits might pay off in the long run. Chris Childers, a general surgery resident at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, analyzed financial statements of Intuitive Surgical, a leading surgery robot manufacturer, to evaluate how cost-effective robotic surgery is. He published the results in a study in […]