Leaders and scholars around the world look to UCLA for the next breakthroughs and new trends.

Doctors needed to determine prior to surgery whether a replacement valve would fit, given the unusual structure of the patient’s heart.

UCLA Residential Life’s Sustainable Living Community and the Education for Sustainable Living Program at UCLA have won awards given to honor innovation at UC and CSU campuses.

The findings strongly suggest that stem cell-based gene therapy with a chimeric antigen receptor may be an effective treatment for chronic HIV infection in humans.

Comedian Kate Clinton’s “coming out” remembrance, coverage of the watershed 1993 march on Washington and the story of murdered transgender teen Fred Martinez are just a few examples of the remarkable new digital portal.

Obstacles, ranging from skyrocketing housing costs and insufficient state and federal funding to social stigma, are sending greater numbers of Americans onto the streets, said a UCLA-Zocalo panel of experts on homelessness.

The Congo Basin Institute in Cameroon will provide a one-of-a-kind center to address the challenges of food and water security, climate change, biodiversity loss, public health and emerging diseases.

The research may identify drug targets that lead to new treatments for acne.

UCLA professor Michael Stoll chronicles shift from getting tough on crime with policies like mandatory minimum sentences to smarter approaches to crime and punishment.

Results could one day have an impact on the development of a treatment for osteoporosis as well as potentially help those with traumatic bone injuries.

“Hyperentanglement” allows each paired photons to carry much more data than was possible with previous methods.

Doctors are encouraged to see that a growing number of cancer patients are being snatched from the precipice by novel immunotherapy treatments.

Adam Winkler notes that the legal reasoning used by Chief Justice John Roberts in the decision that upheld the president’s signature health care law will preserve it against future challenges.

Beginning this fall, the University of California will provide students with the option to voluntarily self-identify their sexual orientation and gender identity on the undergraduate admission application to help the university better understand and meet the diverse needs of its students.

University of California President Janet Napolitano shared good news about the positive impact that California’s 2015-16 final budget will have on the university, from employee compensation to undergraduate tuition.

In its historic decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court today cited research by Gary Gates, the Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and Research Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.

The gift will go toward the Terasaki Center’s program endowment allowing for new initiatives that focus on community engagement.

More than 50 people came together today to share deeply felt anger, compassion, fear and frustration as well as hope for healing in response to last week’s tragic shooting in South Carolina.

Newer, more targeted method, called partial breast irradiation, takes less time to complete and is less likely to expose vital organs to potentially harmful radiation.

Adult obesity rates varied widely by county: San Francisco County had the lowest, 11.3 percent, and Imperial County the highest, 41.7 percent.

“The idea of the summit is that the youth take the lead and the adults listen,” said UCLA’s Darnell Hunt.

Law professor Eugene Volokh writes in the L.A. Times that he thinks the University of California needs to remember the special place universities hold as forums for opposing ideas and open debate.

The study, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, concluded that doctors should consider prescribing the long-lasting injectable much earlier in the course of treatment than they typically do today.

A gathering of the UCLA campus community will be held at noon Thursday, June 25, to honor the nine lives lost in the shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Better mentorship, revised performance reviews and more transparency are among the recommendations shared at a recent UCLA conference that attempted to figure out how to increase the number of women in tech.