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UCLA chemistry and biochemistry professor James Heath, co-founder of the California Nanosystems Institute and recently named to the Scientific American top 50 visionaries in science, sat down last week for an interview with the Daily Bruin: DB: Working in new science like nanotechnology, do you often find yourself having to describe to people what you do? Read more...

OK … so you’re in college. And with that comes certain inalienable rights, such as romping about and cavorting with attractive members of the opposite sex. Read more...

Interactive art demonstration to be shown Wednesday The “Zero@Wavefunction: nanodreams and nightmares” demonstration will be presented to the public this Wednesday, Jan. 29 on the exterior wall of Young Hall in the UCLA Court of Sciences. Read more...

The social impacts of the genetic revolution are closer than we think, according to the UCLA Center for Society, the Individual and Genetics. A handful of genetics experts from around the world gathered in front of over 350 people at UCLA’s Covel Commons last Sunday to raise and explore these very questions about the future of humans and genetics. Read more...

Last Sunday’s “Storefront Genome” conference had some of the greatest pioneering minds in bioethics and scientific public policy discussing the dilemmas that advances in biotechnology will present to society. Read more...

Over 500 medically-minded students woke up bright and early on Saturday, filling Bradley International Hall beyond its capacity for the university’s first-ever Minority Health Conference. The conference, “Bridging Cultures and Enhancing Minority Health Care,” was hosted by the UCLA and USC chapters of the Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association, the Student National Medical Association, and the Latino Medical Student Association. Read more...