UCLA doctors received $9.3 million to help reduce the cost of prostate cancer treatment across California. The state of California awarded the grant to doctors in the UCLA urology department last week. Read more...

Photo: Doctors in the UCLA urology department received $9.3 million to fund the Improving Access, Counseling and Treatment for Californians program, an organization that provides free prostate cancer treatment to men in California who are underinsured or uninsured. (Daily Bruin file photo)

The secret to creating a building that will foster productive social interaction may lie in the nests of ants. Noa Pinter-Wollman, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA, outlined a new field that integrates architecture and evolutionary biology in a special edition of a prestigious scientific journal published by the Royal Society that will be published later this month. Read more...

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A UCLA researcher was awarded $1.4 million to further develop a stem cell-based cancer treatment. Lili Yang, a researcher from the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, received the grant Thursday from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine’s Quest Awards Program to develop her method of genetically modifying blood-forming stem cells to help treat cancer. Read more...

Photo: Lili Yang, a UCLA researcher, received a $1.4 million grant Thursday to develop her method of genetically modifying blood-forming stem cells to help treat cancer. (Daily Bruin file photo)