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Housed inside the California NanoSystems Institute, Magnify helps startups succeed by providing access to equipment and entrepreneurial networking.

UCLA Anderson’s Elisa Long, informed by personal experience, parses data to help those mulling mastectomy and gynecological surgeries to reduce cancer risk.

The UCLA-led study will help scientists better understand the debilitating condition.

The UCLA-led research suggests that the ‘unexpected’ reason is a jump in heart disease risk for whites.

Compared with mice that did not receive an experimental drug called CSA13, mice treated with the drug were significantly more likely to survive the infection and had lower rates of weight loss.

The focus of the program, which is designed for working professionals, is to translate research into advanced clinical practice.

Three fact sheets recommend that legislators enact changes to help patients and survivors — particularly low-income women — who face serious obstacles to care.

UCLA chemistry professor helped develop Erleada, which was recently approved by the FDA for treating an especially lethal form of prostate cancer.

The new method uses 'nanospears' to deliver genes directly to patient cells. Gene therapy has shown great promise as a treatment for a host of diseases, including hemophilia and certain types of cancer.

Approximately 505,000 hip replacements and 723,000 knee replacements were performed in the U.S. in 2014.

Conditions such as higher blood pressure and glucose levels were especially pronounced among older homeowners and people still in the work force.

UCLA-led research shows more than 550 payments for ecosystem services programs are active worldwide with more than $36 billion in annual transactions.

The study appears to be the first to underscore significant clinical differences between men and women with the condition, and points to the need for different treatment approaches to address these varied symptoms.

UCLA-led research shows Earth may be approaching a carbon dioxide threshold for melting ice in the Arctic.

These “superlattices” could lead to improved and new classes of electronics, from transistors to LEDs.

The scientists have shown in their research on mice that increasing levels of a protein could make immune cells more effective at fighting disease.

The research is the first of its kind to compare results between radiotherapy treatments that are higher than the standard dose and traditional treatments, such as radiation and prostatectomy.

UCLA researchers discovered that these patients had a number of unmet psychological and health information needs, particularly during the first three months after their diagnoses.

If the findings are replicated, measuring levels of interleukin 6 could help doctors decide which patients with depression would be best suited for treatment with ECT.

The advance shows great promise for helping the body’s immune system seek out and destroy cancer cells.

Center for Neighborhood Knowledge report provides a snapshot of lingering inequality since the 1960s.

The psychology professor says women can tap into their “uniquely female power” to make life decisions — decisions that will help them to choose mates, avoid danger, compete with female rivals and produce healthy children.

The fifth annual study analyzed the casts of and talent behind the top 200 theatrical releases of 2016 and 1,251 broadcast, cable and digital platform television shows from 2015–16.

In experiments the device produced 30 percent better capacitance — the measure of a device’s ability to store an electric charge — for its mass compared to the best available electrode made from similar materials.

If replicated in larger studies, the findings could lead to new types of programs to improve mental agility in older adults by combining mental training with physical fitness.