Hiking into the Rancho Sierra Vista in the Santa Monica Mountains, Dennis Mabasa encountered a rattlesnake, ready to bite, two feet away. Read more...

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Environmental science students present their senior capstone research on Eco-Certification programs for green hotels at UCLA’s Environmental Science Senior Practicum on Wednesday.

To aid patients with severe facial abnormalities, the UCLA Health System launched a face transplantation program last week "“ the first in the western United States. Read more...

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Patients will undergo facial reconstruction in new UCLA Health System program.

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In the Covel Grand Horizon Room, rows of neuroscientists, doctors and advocates sat side by side with laptops and cups of coffee, with one goal in mind "“ curing brain disease. Read more...

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Actress Glenn Close talks about the stigmas of mental illness during the first annual One Mind for Research conference at UCLA.

An observant and inquisitive group huddled around the examination table in a Santa Monica clinic as an acupuncture student reassured her patient. Read more...

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Mia Nguyen, a clinical intern at Emperor’s College Acupuncture Clinic in Santa Monica, and licensed acupuncturist Steven Stone work on a patient’s swollen knee by feeling for certain pressure points. UCLA pre-med students observed the treatment for an internship with the clinic.

Earth has more of it than scientists can explain. And if it exists on nearby planets, it could mean that there are other life forms in solar systems elsewhere in the universe. Read more...

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UCLA professor of planetary science David Paige holds a model of the moon. Paige and his team have discovered ice on the moon and Mercury. Paige is now working on publishing the conclusions.

The team has engineered a cell phone device that, in conjunction with a smartphone application, reads rapid diagnostic tests and transfers the information onto an online server. Read more...