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The study, led by UCLA professor Jaana Juvonen, surveyed more than 4,300 sixth-graders in Southern and Northern California.

Two priorities for the fiscal year 2017 competition were north campus-led research projects and projects involving big data and related tools and capabilities.

By showing that stress levels can be quantified by a simple urine test, and that this test helps predict disease, this work could lead to strategies for prevention of coronary heart disease and heart attacks.

The latest report says GDP growth will exceed 2 percent in the near term but fall below 2 percent in 2019.

Findings help UCLA-led researchers better understand congenital Zika virus syndrome — a pattern of birth defects found among fetuses and babies infected with the virus.

The Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior is one of a handful of hospitals and clinics nationwide that offer a treatment that works in a fundamentally different way than drugs.

What are the prospects for young men and women who grow up in and then age out of the juvenile justice system? Research and the media paint a bleak picture for those whose adolescent years have been intertwined with incarceration.

UCLA researchers observed that mice with a form of autism had an inability to adapt to repeated whisker stimulation.

Minimum parking requirements — rules that are imposed on developers of apartment buildings, among other builders, to provide parking spaces for their tenants — are partly to blame for the crisis in affordable housing in cities like Los Angeles.

Researchers at UCLA have developed a molecular compound that improves balance and coordination in mice with the early stage of the disorder.

Research shows that Americans favor citizenship for those already here, but worry about allowing more in.

A team of UCLA scientists is testing an experimental drug that could one day result in a treatment for osteoporosis, which affects more than 200 million people worldwide.

UCLA research findings show changes in same genes that clipped the sea bird’s wings cause human bone disorders.

Researchers from seven institutions are studying the well-being of adolescents and young adults with the virus or at risk for infection.

Study showed air, soil and water from city parks in Los Angeles, San Diego, Fresno and Bakersfield contained high quantities of the genes in bacteria cells.

Deletions or duplications of DNA along 22nd chromosome hint at biological underpinnings of these neuropsychiatric disorders.

The new technique for breaking carbon–hydrogen bonds and making carbon–carbon bonds uses catalysts made of silicon and boron, which are abundant and inexpensive.

Test developed by UCLA researchers would help physicians determine which people may be more treatable with an antibiotic that has not been recommended since 2007.

Data collected in the Congo by UCLA scientists and others will help empower global initiatives to protect the planet.

Scientists from UCLA, UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco sequenced the genome of a tiny, single-celled green alga.

UCLA researchers found that women and men exhibit different changes in their brain’s reward centers, which suggests different reasons for overeating.

Study raises questions about water management and supply in an area that produces more than half of fruit, vegetable and nut crops in the United States.

Math often gets a bad rap as an uncreative left brain-oriented activity, but Andrea Bertozzi recalls that, as a child, she was fascinated by math's creative potential.

Researchers from UCLA and Norway suggest possible causes and better treatments for the autoimmune disease that affects the body’s connective tissue.

The finding represents one of the clearest examples to date of the phenomenon — stretches of DNA that exist for no reason other than promoting their own inheritance — at the molecular level.