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Results from the evaluation of 14 estuaries along the Pacific coast of the United States will help to inform policy on conservation of wetlands.

“Our ultimate goal is to be able to regenerate cardiomyocytes after an injury like a heart attack,” Dr. Reza Ardehali said. “But we’re first trying to learn from the embryonic heart.”

Researchers also explored the influence of gender and whether playing sports and video games is correlated with driving skills.

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UCLA researcher Steven Mittelman’s work could change not just how doctors treat leukemia, but how they treat other cancers that are also fed by fat.

Neil Landau’s “Tad Jones: The Hero Returns” was named Best Animated Film of 2017 by the Goya Awards, Spain’s equivalent of the Academy Awards.

The show runs through March 1 in the New Wight Gallery in the Broad Art Center.

The competition, which showcases the best three-minute, Ted-talk-style research presentations by graduate students, will run through March 7.

Dr. Huda Zoghbi helped identify a gene mutation that causes Rett syndrome, a genetic disorder leading to loss of language and motor skills, primarily in young girls.

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UCLA professor says in new book, “Satan in the Bible, God’s Minister of Justice,” that Satan was not originally presented as the implacable enemy of God.

UCLA professor of musicology David MacFadyen is a champion of blockchain and how it could influence the future study and scholarship in arts and literature.

Climate scientist Alex Hall will embark on a three-week, 1,000-mile, two-wheel trek on a mission of educating, learning and engaging with the public.

Sociologist Aliza Luft writes about the powerful economic forces people can use to alleviate violent oppression.

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UCLA is tied for third in the number of people honored this year by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which selects early-career scientists who are rising stars of science.

The chancellor reaffirms UCLA’s commitment to impassioned debate that values reasoned debate over intentionally mean-spirited provocation.

The five-year project funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases will involve three projects to investigate factors that accelerate and prevent the re-emergence of HIV.

Ann Karagozian, Stanley Osher and Ali Sayed have received what is among the highest professional honors that can be granted to an American engineer.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Andrei Iancu, who holds three degrees from UCLA, by a vote of 94-0.

The authors’ goals are to influence policymakers, clinicians, educators and health researchers.

Wenzel, also a former assistant dean of what was then the UCLA School of Medicine, died in Los Angeles of natural causes on Jan. 31. She was 96.

Lauren McCarthy is participating in the “Open Codes” exhibition at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Germany.

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Gov. Jerry Brown appointed 15 technology and education experts to the committee which will oversee implementation of K-12 computer science standards.