Asian News International today reports on research by Blaire Van Valkenburgh, UCLA professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and colleagues showing that among prehistoric big cats, male sabertoothed cats were likely less aggressive than closely related male American lions.

 

 

Kohn, director of UCLA's Human Gene Medicine Program and a professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about French researchers who successfully halted progression of the fatal degenerative disorder adrenoleukodystrophy (ALD) in two children using gene therapy.

 

Rosenthal, chief medical officer of the UCLA Health System and associate vice chancellor of the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is quoted today in a Reuters article about disparities in health care between affluent and low-income regions in the U.S.