Science & Health

• Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine performs autopsy on 115-year-old woman to aid research

  By Andrea Schneck

  UCLA’s Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine recently autopsied 115-year-old Gertrude Baines, formerly the oldest person in the world.

• UCLA study links combined effect of genetics and environment in a person's disease susceptibility

  By Heidi Redlitz

  A recently published UCLA study has identified interactions between genetics and environment that may affect disease susceptibility among individuals.

• Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers use genomic sequencing to better understand cancer

  By Sarah Khan

  Researchers at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have completed the first full genomic sequencing of a brain cancer cell line.

• California NanoSystems Institute study finds that bullet-shaped vesicular stomatitis virus has disease-fighting potential

  By Kelly Zhou

  Researchers at UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute and other organizations have published a new study on the structure of the bullet-shaped vesicular stomatitis virus, furthering the general understanding of disease treatment and promoting vaccine development.

• UC studies show marijuana can be used medicinally as a pain reliever

  By Suzy Strutner

  Marijuana does, in fact, have the potential to alleviate a sprinkling of medical qualms, according to a series of studies completed on UC campuses over the last 10 years and recently presented to the California State Legislature.

• UCLA researchers find a method of testing saliva that may detect early stages of pancreatic cancer

  By Thomas Standifer

  Saliva sampling may lead to early diagnosis of highly lethal pancreatic cancer, according to a study by a multidisciplinary group of UCLA researchers.

• Darwin’s ideas live on in popular lecture series

  By Brittany Wong

  Thirty or 40 years ago, the textbook for an evolutionary biology class would be thick with facts on the fossil record, comparative anatomy and taxonomy.

• Relief team sent to aid Haiti

  By Daniel Schonhaut

  One doctor and six nurses have taken leave of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for a two-week relief mission to Haiti, where they will treat victims of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that struck the island nation on Jan. 12.

• A way to discover the unseen

  By Sarah Khan

  The new Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer telescope project, led by Edward Wright at UCLA, will help researchers discover and analyze previously unseen objects in our solar system and beyond, said Wright, a professor of physics and astronomy and principal investigator of the telescope project.

• UC gains lease for hospital project

  By Itak Moradi

  The UC Board of Regents recently approved a $147 million lease to construct a medical facility across from the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital.

Looking for more? Try the archive.