Tag Archive for: UCLA Life Sciences
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UCLA College Celebrates International Women’s Day
On International Women’s Day we give a shout-out to five…
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Professor Seeks to Provide All Students with a Pathway to Research Success
When Tracy Johnson was an undergraduate working in a lab…
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Esmeralda Villavicencio Is Working to Make Disease and Infertility a Thing of the Past
UCLA College division of Life Sciences student Esmeralda Isabel…
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Michelle Craske to share how research can inform anxiety and depression treatment
For more than three decades, Michelle Craske has been trying…
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First childhood flu helps explain why virus hits some people harder than others
Why are some people better able to fight off the flu than…
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Hundreds of UCLA students publish paper analyzing 1,000 genes involved in organ development
A team of 245 UCLA undergraduates and 31 high school students…
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UCLA psychology department receives $30 million from Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation
UCLA has received a $30 million commitment from the Anthony…
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Student launches mobile health clinic to increase access to care
On a sunny autumn Saturday at the Southeast-Rio Vista YMCA…
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Chronic opioid treatment may raise risk of post-traumatic stress disorder, study finds
While opioids are often prescribed to treat people with trauma-related…
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Meet UCLA Student Researcher Julia Nakamura
Meet fourth-year UCLA student researcher Julia Nakamura!
Julia…