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Viewpoint: How our food choices impact the global environment
Messaging about healthy and sustainable food choices — buying local, the best diets, the cost of nutritious food — can ...
Delusion and technology: How the internet exacerbates schizophrenia and other mental health problems
Evolving technology and its expanding influence in society are altering evaluation of schizophrenia patients who have delusional thoughts ...
Poverty, food and brain health: Lack of nutritious food leaves multi-generational impact on our bodies and minds
You are what you eat, according to the adage. But it’s not just the body that’s impacted. According to research ...
Christianity and ‘race science’: UCLA’S Terrence Keel examines the religious roots of scientific racism
Terence Keel is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the African American studies department and the UCLA Institute ...
Breastfeeding protects against maternal cognitive decline later in life
A new study led by researchers at UCLA Health has found that women over the age of 50 who had ...
Stem cells harvested from patient with neurological disorder turned into 3D mini brain that shows signs of seizures
Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have developed brain ...
Safer and cheaper: New research in ‘nanospears’ could transform gene therapies
UCLA scientists have developed a new method that utilizes microscopic splinter-like structures called “nanospears” for the targeted delivery of biomolecules ...
Search and destroy: CAR-T cell therapy could give patients HIV immunity
A UCLA-led research team has created blood-forming stem cells that can carry a gene that allows the body to produce cells ...
Modified herpes virus boosts immunotherapy treatment for melanoma
In a two-year UCLA-led study, nearly two-thirds of people with advanced melanoma responded positively to a treatment that combines the ...
‘Simple’ blood exome test analyzes 20,000 genes to identify rare diseases
In 2012, [10-month old] Calvin Lapidus became the first patient to undergo exome sequencing at UCLA. He was subsequently diagnosed ...
Biologist, environmental lawyer, food columnist: GMOs shouldn’t be controversial
Two UCLA faculty members — molecular biologist Robert Goldberg and international law and policy scholar Edward Parson — defended the ...
Newly-discovered ‘dark matter’ of genome helps immune system function
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists at the UCLA Eli ...
Computer scientists compute missing parts of epigenetics map
A pair of computational biologists from UCLA and MIT developed a method that can fill in major gaps in large-scale ...
Modified tomatoes mimic actions of good cholesterol
The following is an edited excerpt. UCLA researchers have genetically engineered tomatoes to produce a peptide that mimics the actions ...