Category Archives: Science & Health

So you’re sitting in class, thinking you’d rather gouge your eyes out with a pencil than listen to one more second of Professor Bore-ophyll. But it’s only been about 15 minutes since lecture started. How do you know if this is a typical symptom of college-student boredom, or a more serious problem with attention and […]

Combination therapy found effective for breast cancer Two studies conducted by the UCLA Jonsson Cancer Center have found that a combination therapy of the drug Herceptin and chemotherapy increases tumor response and decreases the rate of relapse in breast cancer. Herceptin interferes with a receptor on tumor cells that can induce the excess growth characteristic […]

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers at UCLA knows its circuits. Teams of UCLA engineering students have spent months and many sleepless nights of algorithm tweaking for complex bundles of circuits and sensors on wheels. The fruits of their labor are Natcars, miniature racecars powered by a single battery and capable of running autonomously […]

On-campus computer networks are prime targets for infection from worms and viruses because of constant connectivity to the Internet. Approximately 2,300 computers on the campus network were found to harbor a variety of worms, ranging from the annoying to the potentially hazardous, within the past two weeks. A worm is a type of computer virus […]

The increasing connectivity capabilities of the Internet have created a breeding ground for illegal file-sharing and potential copyright infringement. This is especially the case in college dorms that utilize the fastest local area network connections. “With the Internet, there are just so many information and transfer possibilities,” said first-year computer science student Angie Yen. “There’s […]

Sufferers of a common psychiatric illness can make a conscious decision to change their biology. Individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder can change their brain activity through cognitive behavioral therapy over the course of a year, according to a recent UCLA study. The same researchers, hailing from the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute and biobehavioral sciences department, are now […]

The small medical clinic off the highway in Falmouth, Jamaica could be overlooked in a blink of an eye, yet some patients drive six hours across the island to visit the clinic’s medical staff. They begin lining up on the deck of the white-washed veranda at dawn throughout the week. By 8:30 in the morning, […]