UCLA's Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine recently autopsied 115-year-old Gertrude Baines, formerly the oldest person in the world. Read more...
Photo: Gertrude Baines, a 115-year-old woman who was recently autopsied, was one of 77 living supercentenarians in the world ““ people aged 110 or older.
A recently published UCLA study has identified interactions between genetics and environment that may affect disease susceptibility among individuals. Read more...
Photo: courtesy of ROSA CHEN Casey Romanoski, a graduate student, led a study analyzing how genetics and environment determine an individual’s susceptibility to disease.
Researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have completed the first full genomic sequencing of a brain cancer cell line. Read more...
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. Read more...
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. Read more...
Saliva sampling may lead to early diagnosis of highly lethal pancreatic cancer, according to a study by a multidisciplinary group of UCLA researchers. Read more...
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. Read more...
