Category Archives: Science & Health

UCLA chemistry and biochemistry professor James Heath, co-founder of the California Nanosystems Institute and recently named to the Scientific American top 50 visionaries in science, sat down last week for an interview with the Daily Bruin: DB: Working in new science like nanotechnology, do you often find yourself having to describe to people what you […]

Do you have more than five registered e-mail addresses? How about more than three AIM screen names? Does the acronym “DC” remind you of a steady flow of current instead of our nation’s capital? Are you The Person people ask to fix their computers? According to many online geek tests, if you answered yes to […]

Students trudging home from class last Wednesday night may have been surprised to come face-to-face with a six-foot-tall molecule projected on the wall of UCLA’s Court of Sciences. Two UCLA professors ““ Victoria Vesna, professor and chairwoman of the Design/Media Arts Department at UCLA, and Jim Gimzewski, a UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry ““ […]

The social impacts of the genetic revolution are closer than we think, according to the UCLA Center for Society, the Individual and Genetics. A handful of genetics experts from around the world gathered in front of over 350 people at UCLA’s Covel Commons last Sunday to raise and explore these very questions about the future […]

Last Sunday’s “Storefront Genome” conference had some of the greatest pioneering minds in bioethics and scientific public policy discussing the dilemmas that advances in biotechnology will present to society. They posed many challenging questions about reproduction, law, and humanity, to which no one has comprehensive answers. In posing these questions, the conference speakers charted out […]

Over 500 medically-minded students woke up bright and early on Saturday, filling Bradley International Hall beyond its capacity for the university’s first-ever Minority Health Conference. The conference, “Bridging Cultures and Enhancing Minority Health Care,” was hosted by the UCLA and USC chapters of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association, the Student National Medical Association, […]