FINDINGS Neuroscientists at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA have discovered precisely where and how to electrically stimulate the human brain to enhance people’s recollection of... Read more
UCLA study paves the way for creating on and off buttons for chemical reactions UCLA physicists have pioneered a method for creating a unique new molecule that could eventually have applicat... Read more
Cellular time machine’ could eventually benefit humans, too UCLA biologists have developed an intervention that serves as a cellular time machine — turning back the clock on a key component... Read more
The new building material could transform polluting emissions into a valuable resource Imagine a world with little or no concrete. Would that even be possible? After all, concrete is everywh... Read more
UCLA geochemist finds striking similarities between climate change patterns today and millions of years ago In the early Miocene Epoch, temperatures were 10 degrees warmer and ocean levels w... Read more
Some skin wounds, such as diabetic ulcers, are chronic and may never heal; others, such as burn wounds, are often large and difficult to treat, resulting in pain, infection and scarring. Res... Read more
UCLA-led research on telomerase could lead to new strategies for treating disease An enzyme called telomerase plays a significant role in aging and most cancers, but until recently many aspe... Read more
Robotic step training and noninvasive spinal stimulation enable patient to take thousands of steps A 39-year-old man who had been completely paralyzed for four years was able to voluntarily... Read more
Sandia method cheaper, greener and cuts competition for fertilizer Nitrogen and phosphate nutrients are among the biggest costs in cultivating algae for biofuels. Sandia molecular biologists... Read more
The materials in most of today’s residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time. A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capab... Read more
New attachment turns a smartphone into a microscope that can image and size DNA molecules 50,000 times thinner than a human hair If you thought scanning one of those strange, square QR codes... Read more