Medical School Personal Statement – Free Tips! – Video




Medical School Personal Statement – Free Tips! From a former UCLA medical school admissions committee member! Get editing at http://bit.ly/personal-statement-editing from real experts who have been on adm… By: Mike Frazier Continue reading

Doctor to speak about integrative East-West medicine

Integrative East-West medicine can optimize the quality of life for patients with cancer, according to Dr. Malcolm Taw, assistant clinical professor of medicine at the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine. The techniques can treat symptoms or side effects commonly associated with chemotherapy, radiation therapy and surgery, he said Continue reading

Top Health Care Experts Prepare Professionals for Patient Advocacy, Affordable Care Act Through New UCLA Extension …

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Two in-demand health care careers patient advocacy and transformational leadership are now achievable through accelerated professional certificate programs offered by UCLA Extension this spring. Transformational leadership skills are urgently needed as organizations implement the Affordable Healthcare Act. Continue reading

UCLA stem cell researchers receive more than $6 million in grants from state agency

( University of California – Los Angeles ) Two cardiology investigators from the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA have been awarded grants totaling more than $6 million from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, the state's stem cell agency. Continue reading

UCLA 2012 Department of Physics




UCLA 2012 Department of Physics Astronomy Commencement Ceremony — Howard Preston Howard Preston giving the UCLA 2012 Department of Physics Astronomy Commencement Ceremony June 16, 2012From:UCLAViews:3 0ratingsTime:52:11More inScience Technology Continue reading

UCLA Researchers Seek New Treatments for "Bubble Boy" Disease – Video




UCLA Researchers Seek New Treatments for “Bubble Boy” Disease In this KCAL 9 News segment, Dr. Donald Kohn talks about how UCLA scientists are utilizing gene therapy to help children with so called “bubble boy” disease, or SCID (Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease). Continue reading

UCLA Pituitary Tumor Program Overview – Video




UCLA Pituitary Tumor Program Overview The Pituitary Tumor Program at UCLA is a multi-disciplinary team of health care professionals dedicated to providing state-of-the-art management of pituitary tumors. Learn more at pituitary.ucla.edu or call the Neurosurgery Referral Line at (310) 825-5111.From:UCLAHealthViews:10 0ratingsTime:03:17More inScience Technology Continue reading

UCLA-led research team develops world's most powerful nanoscale microwave oscillators

Public release date: 25-Jun-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Matthew Chin mchin@support.ucla.edu 310-206-0680 University of California – Los Angeles A team of UCLA researchers has created the most powerful high-performance nanoscale microwave oscillators in the world, a development that could lead to cheaper, more energy-efficient mobile communication devices that deliver much better signal quality. Today’s cell phones, WiFienabled tablets and other electronic gadgets all use microwave oscillators, tiny devices that generate the electrical signals used in communications. Continue reading

Building molecular 'cages' to fight disease

ScienceDaily (May 31, 2012) UCLA biochemists have designed specialized proteins that assemble themselves to form tiny molecular cages hundreds of times smaller than a single cell. The creation of these miniature structures may be the first step toward developing new methods of drug delivery or even designing artificial vaccines Continue reading

Same gene that stunts infants' growth also makes them grow too big

Public release date: 27-May-2012 [ | E-mail | Share ] Contact: Elaine Schmidt eschmidt@mednet.ucla.edu 310-794-2272 University of California – Los Angeles Health Sciences The Caterpillar got down off the mushroom and crawled away in the grass, remarking as it went, ‘One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.’ -Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll UCLA geneticists have identified the mutation responsible for IMAGe syndrome, a rare disorder that stunts infants’ growth. The twist? The mutation occurs on the same gene that causes Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, which makes cells grow too fast, leading to very large children Continue reading

Disease that stunts infants' growth traced to same gene that makes kids grow too fast

ScienceDaily (May 27, 2012) UCLA geneticists have identified the mutation responsible for IMAGe syndrome, a rare disorder that stunts infants’ growth. The twist? The mutation occurs on the same gene that causes Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, which makes cells grow too fast, leading to very large children Continue reading

Nnew genetic method developed to pinpoint individuals' geographic origin

ScienceDaily (May 24, 2012) Understanding the genetic diversity within and between populations has important implications for studies of human disease and evolution. This includes identifying associations between genetic variants and disease, detecting genomic regions that have undergone positive selection and highlighting interesting aspects of human population history. Now, a team of researchers from the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science, UCLA’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Israel’s Tel Aviv University has developed an innovative approach to the study of genetic diversity called spatial ancestry analysis (SPA), which allows for the modeling of genetic variation in two- or three-dimensional space Continue reading