Tag Archive for: UCLA Life Sciences
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UCLA senior has a new flight plan
Anyadike made national headlines in summer 2009, at age 15, by…
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Antarctica could be headed for major meltdown
In the early Miocene Epoch, temperatures were 10 degrees warmer…
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Uphill battle for California’s native plant species
Invasive species have moved faster than native species, colonizing…
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Q&A: UCLA psychologist Robert Bjork on the science of learning
Robert Bjork, Distinguished Research Professor in the UCLA Department…
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Don’t use body mass index to determine whether people are healthy, UCLA-led study says
Over the past few years, body mass index, a ratio of a person’s…
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Paul Terasaki, 86, transplant medicine pioneer, philanthropist, UCLA faculty member and alumnus
Paul Ichiro Terasaki, who spent three years with his family in…
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Dog domestication may have increased harmful genetic changes, UCLA biologists report
Domesticating dogs from gray wolves more than 15,000 years ago…
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Is seeing believing? People are surprisingly bad at identifying where sights and sounds originate
“We tend to view our senses as flawless and think that to see…
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Cryo-electron microscope research reveals structure and mechanism of Bluetongue virus
Bluetongue disease is a viral infection that has killed approximately…
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Why are some wild animals more tolerant to human interaction than others?
Over time, some species become more tolerant of humans’ presence,…