With the help of my neighborhood GNC Nutrition Superstore, I have devised a plan to live forever. It’s simple, really. All I need to do is to eat garlic to prevent heart disease, and have a little folic acid and selenium to keep the cancer at bay. Read more...
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February 10, 9:00 pm
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February 10, 9:00 pm
Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration opens
Monday marked the official opening for the new Institute for Cell Mimetic Space Exploration at UCLA. The joint partnership between UCLA and NASA aims to develop a “lab on a chip,” which would carry out the same complex functions of a full-sized scientific lab on a tiny chip. Read more...
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February 3, 9:00 pm
Q & A with James Heath
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...
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February 3, 9:00 pm
Online tests help geeks vent repressed emotions
Do you have more than five registered e-mail addresses? How about more than three AIM screen names? Does the acronym “DC” remind you of a steady flow of current instead of our nation’s capital? Read more...
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February 3, 9:00 pm
Nanotechnology inspires joining of art, science
Students trudging home from class last Wednesday night may have been surprised to come face-to-face with a six-foot-tall molecule projected on the wall of UCLA’s Court of Sciences. Read more...
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February 3, 9:00 pm
Briefs
UCLA will host symposium on health care The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA will present a health care symposium entitled “The Business of Medicine: Challenges to Professionalism” on Saturday, Feb. Read more...