UCLA researchers developed a machine learning algorithm to aid radiologists in diagnosing prostate cancer. Ruiming Cao, a graduate student in computer science, was the main developer of FocalNet, an artificial intelligence system which uses data from magnetic resonance imaging to detect and assess prostate cancer. Steven Raman, a radiologist and a senior author of the […]
Category Archives: Science & Health
Student uses microscopes to get closer look at potential for music creation
Ivana Dama is innovating what can constitute a musical instrument, using a microscope and human brain tissue in her latest performance. The third-year design media arts student gave a presentation of her audiovisual project in an improvisational performance at Studio 106 L.A. on April 21. The ongoing project consists of a microscope and slides that […]
Activists march through Westwood and UCLA to protest animal experimentation
Animal rights activists protested a proposed state bill and UCLA’s use of animals in medical experiments Friday. About 40 people walked from Westwood to UCLA, before heading to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, to protest animal experimentation as well as Assembly Bill 700. The bill, which is still in the Assembly Appropriations Committee, would further prevent the […]
UCLA study suggests vitamin D may be a safe, seizure-minimizing epilepsy treatment
Vitamin D may help reduce the frequency of seizures in epilepsy patients, according to a recent study from UCLA. Researchers in the lab of Christopher DeGiorgio, a professor of neurology, found that epilepsy patients experienced moderately fewer seizure episodes after taking vitamin D pills. The study serves as the first step toward assessing whether vitamin […]
UCLA researchers discover cost and time efficient method to recycle water
UCLA researchers designed a water vapor capture system that could purify industrial wastewater and agricultural runoff three times more efficiently than existing methods. The study, published in the April issue of Science Advance, was led by Yongho Sungtaek Ju, a mechanical and aerospace engineering professor. Ju said he was initially awarded a grant from the […]
UCLA researchers develop wearable device that generates electricity from snow
UCLA researchers created a device that can generate electricity from snow. The device, called the snow-TENG, is a thin, transparent sheet of mostly silicone, which can be inexpensively manufactured using a 3D printer. Richard Kaner, a professor of chemistry and materials science, and Maher El-Kady, a postdoctoral researcher of chemistry and biochemistry, are part of […]
Two UCLA buildings potentially exposed to measles, one student infected
This post was updated May 2 at 3:51 p.m. All UCLA students and faculty who were quarantined for possible exposure to measles last week have been released from quarantine as of Thursday. The students and faculty were cleared after they verified their vaccination history or after they were deemed no longer to be at risk […]