Science + Technology

The UCLA-led research also indicates that the primary culprit in smokers’ increased risk is not nicotine but other chemicals in tobacco smoke.

A UCLA-funded study models the toll of heat and dehydration on the human body along the unforgiving routes used by Latin American migrants.

Professors continued helping us better understand our world with their research, students kept excelling and UCLA showed how it helps make Los Angeles a world-class city.

Research brief: Adding a protein called viral polymerase to vaccines could potentially create a more robust, enduring immune response, scientists say.

The findings were made possible by an algorithm developed by UCLA postdoctoral scholar Jon Zink.

Research brief: A UCLA-led study identifies a potential target for therapies to prevent or treat heart failure.

The veteran firefighter, who expects to earn his Ph.D. in chemistry in winter quarter, is using his knowledge to improve the health and safety of his colleagues.

Using stem cell engineering and organoid technology, UCLA researchers were able to produce large quantities of powerful cancer-fighting iNKT cells.

The list is compiled based on research citations from 2010 to 2020.

UCLA researchers use super-resolution microscopy to reveal surprising new details about X inactivation in female mouse embryos.

The research focuses on the factors contributing to a key climate variable called vapor pressure deficit.

Visitors will take part in do-it-yourself guided science experiments using common household supplies.

The center will engage UCLA faculty and Amazon AI specialists working to address society’s mot pressing challenges.

The UCLA-led research could revise a 70-year-old model of how the fundamental building blocks of substances are assembled.

Researchers report that all nine patients who were successfully treated for ADA-SCID in a UCLA clinical trial from 2009 to 2012 are still disease-free.

Faculty, alumni and students from multiple disciplines are helping shape stories of accountability in “Sustaining US,” whose second season debuts Oct. 6

Professor emeritus Bruce Runnegar was part of the team that got to the bottom of the situation.

The center, co-led by UCLA and headquartered at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is developing the microscopes of tomorrow.

The five-year award from California’s stem cell agency will help prepare young scientists and physicians to become leaders in the regenerative medicine field.

Jordan Bretzfelder, a UCLA doctoral student, proposed the idea while completing a summer internship at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

The Quantum Biology Center at UCLA is the first research hub of its kind in the U.S.

Could the very timing of a mission help shield astronauts from dangerous radiation?

A UCLA study suggests researchers could analyze neurological disorders in a stem cell–derived model.

The research, conducted in mice, could elucidate how and why the phenomenon occurs.

Too little sleep in the first six months after giving birth can add three to seven years to women’s “biological age,” UCLA scientists report.