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Some of UCLA’s most-accomplished faculty and alumni are attending the magazine’s weeklong event, which attracts business, technology, design and entertainment notables.

UCLA researchers identified where and how to electrically stimulate the human brain in order to strengthen people’s recall.

Among the highlights are a $50 million gift from Mattel, Inc. to the children’s hospital — the largest corporate gift in UCLA history — and the most gifts ever from young alumni.

In a clinical trial, a UCLA-led team used a biomaterial embedded with tiny gems to help tissue heal after the procedure.

Award-winning comedy television writers with degrees in mathematics and science discuss “The Calculus of Comedy: Math in The Simpsons, Futurama, and The Big Bang Theory” on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017.

A UCLA Nursing study found that combining education and entertainment helped encourage patients to seek therapy.

To understand how weather patterns behaved centuries ago, the researchers examined the rings of trees such as limber pines and bristlecone pines, the oldest living organisms on Earth.

Elaine Hsiao, assistant professor of integrative biology and physiology, and Hosea Nelson, UCLA assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, are among 18 winners.

The grants totaling more than $10 million highlight innovative biomedical research projects.

The grant “will allow UCLA to continue our decade-long preeminence in groundbreaking autism research,” said Dr. Daniel Geschwind, director of the UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment.

The researchers found that mouse models that lacked the protein IDOL performed poorly in behavioral tests of spatial memory and fear-based conditioning.

Titan’s liquid methane rain appears to play a major role in shaping its icy surface, and the downpours are much more common than researchers expected.

The grant will enable scholars to pursue new research, develop state-of-the-art digital resources and forge international collaborations.

The UCLA Health program provides surgical and medical treatment, and psychological health support for post-9/11-era service members, veterans and their families.

The discovery in the amygdala provides insights into how the organ regulates emotions and social behavior.

Highlights include several world premieres of new work, symposia, and programs celebrating works by American and British composers.

UCLA researchers predicted what the timing of snow and rainwater runoff in the Sierra Nevada could look like by the end of the 21st century.

Using the organoids they created, researchers were able to identify drugs that could prevent the virus’s damaging effects.

The treatment tested in mice disrupts and exploits glucose intake, essentially cutting off the tumor’s nutrients and energy supply. The approach prevents the glioblastoma from growing.

A team of researchers from the UCLA Center for AIDS Research, Stanford University and the National Institutes of Health developed a synthetic molecule that could awaken dormant virus cells and then knock them out.

The astronomers identified a “special comet” called K2 traveling from beyond Saturn’s orbit — the farthest active inbound comet ever seen.

The UCLA-led research suggests that a reduction in “low-value” care can safely cut expenses.

UCLA biophysicists developed the technique and the measuring device.

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