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The award from the National Cancer Institute will fund a series of collaborative research projects over five years at UCLA.

The blood cells, part of the body's first line of defense against infection, have been notoriously difficult to genetically engineer.

A study in zebrafish identified how air pollutants contribute to the buildup of toxic proteins associated with the disease.

The program, called SuEIR, takes into account the number of cases categorized as susceptible, unreported, exposed, infectious and recovered.

Half of apartment dwellers in the city say they have been exposed to unwanted secondhand smoke in their homes in the last year.

In general, Democratic and Republican voters support the restrictions that were enacted to slow the spread of COVID-19.

The United States is one of 11 countries that do not mandate some form of paid leave at the national level.

The immunotherapy drug combination is currently being reviewed for approval under a new FDA pilot program.

The county is on pace for just 52% of households to respond, down from about 63% in 2010.

The findings are critical for researchers aiming to develop muscle stem cells in the lab that can be used to combat disease.

UCLA study suggests younger kids might be more adept at deciphering nonverbal emotional cues in photographs.

Scientists and a robot named MaRTy tested the city’s new Cool Streets program and made a surprising discovery.

The Hollywood power couple connected with public health professor Anne Rimoin after she appeared on an MSNBC program.

The drug’s legalization and decriminalization have made detection especially important for preventing impaired driving, the authors say.

By repurposing drugs originally intended for other uses, scientists are pushing forward the fight against cancer.

Without a change in course, the 2020 count may be "one of the most incomplete census enumerations in history," says UCLA’s Paul Ong.

The online atlas supports efforts to better understand the region’s habitats, which could influence global conservation efforts.

Families continue to demand aggressive medical treatment for loved ones, even when they know it isn't likely to help.

Images of C/2019 Y4 breaking into more than two dozen fragments in recent days were captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

“We hope our method could be used in the future to prepare treatments that can be performed at the patient’s bedside,” said UCLA’s Paul Weiss.

UCLA's Quality of Life Index found that the young and economically stressed are far less optimistic about their opportunities.

In a study using mice with bone defects in their skulls, the treatment reduced the size of the defects by an average of 50%.

The first installment features a discussion with professors Ren Sun, Dr. Otto Yang, Daniel Kamei and Eran Halperin.

The researchers’ approach could also eventually be used as a way to monitor the activity of volcanoes.

Research brief: The experiment represents one of a very few instances in which a drug reduced cognitive decline in animals after radiation treatment.