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A gene thought to express the so-called heat shock protein αB-Crystallin in all cells that experience stress instead expresses it only in certain cell types, researchers say.

Researchers found that the more food and soda ads there are in a given neighborhood, the higher the likelihood that the area's residents are overweight.

The Allen Matkins/UCLA Anderson Forecast survey polled industry professionals on how they think the market will change over the coming three years.

The gift from Hufschmid, co-founder of GlobeOp Financial Services, will provide ongoing support for the research and teaching efforts of a distinguished UCLA Anderson faculty member.

For at-risk adults who are 50 or older, the deeper their suspicion of the government, the less likely they are to get tested, a UCLA study has found.

UCLA professor Martin Monti and colleagues in Israel found encouraging, but subtle, signs of consciousness in Sharon, who has been in a vegetative state for seven years.

As part of the Human Brain Project, UCLA's Laboratory of Neuro Imaging will help aggregrate the world's data on the brain and reconstruct it in computer-based models.

When it comes to motility, Myxococcus bacteria have more in common with tectonic plates -- and trains and a host of other things -- than you might expect, researchers say.

The department, which emphasizes cross-cultural research, dance and community outreach, is offering a variety of events for the public's enjoyment this winter.

The initiative, envisioned and supported by Jane and Terry Semel, will integrate health and wellness programs across UCLA to help make healthy living a natural part of campus culture.

In the current economy, an unprecedented number of incoming college students are putting a premium on the career-related benefits of higher education, UCLA's annual Freshman Survey shows.

Scientists have now pinpointed a tiny segment of the toxic amyloid-beta protein that they believe facilitates "clumping" and the subsequent death of brain cells.

Thanks to the generosity of philanthropist Morton La Kretz, the new field station in the Santa Monica Mountains will help UCLA researchers and colleagues conduct conservation practice in the field.

Players' brains were found to have elevated levels of tau protein, a precursor to Alzheimer's and the condition known as CTE, which afflicted the late Junior Seau.

The portable, cost-effective platform, which can produce images of single nanoparticles over large sample areas, could be useful in fighting diseases in areas where medical resources are limited.

The federal government's voluntary care-coordination program was created to reduce costs while offering high-quality service to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.

With nearly 100,000 applicants seeking admission for 2013, UCLA remains the most applied-to university in the country, drawing exceptionally talented students from California and beyond.

UCLA's FAME center, a multi-university partnership, aims to develop unique nanomaterials and structures that will help make semiconductors far more powerful and energy-efficient.

The suspect in the Jan. 7 incident is described as a light-skinned Caucasian male with short dark hair, approximately 30 to 35 years old, 5'10" to 6 feet tall, with a thin build.

The team's multidisciplinary research efforts will reshape and improve how images and large data sets are collected and analyzed in science, engineering, medicine and other fields.

Researchers found that with a small dose of extra training, physicians were more thorough and informative in discussing medicines and their effects with patients.

Compared to kids who are not overweight, obese children are at nearly twice the risk of having a slew of medical, mental and developmental difficulties, UCLA researchers found.

The grant funds a unique project that brings together faculty from architecture, urban studies and the humanities to study contemporary issues in four of the world's most complex cities.

The ruling has affirmed UCLA's commitment to fair business practices and the speedy commercialization of university technologies for the benefit of the public.

Markov, whose colorful life involved stints as a battlefield courier and farmworker, followed by a long career as a pioneering academic, died Jan. 1. He was 91.