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Some time ago, researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announced the development of a brain-imaging technique that enabled them to assess the neurological changes produced by cognitive decline. Now, they report that the approach can also predict dementia risks.
In a paper published in the F... |
14 February 2012
05:29 GMT |
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It's not every day that you hear about the Hubble Space Telescope being beaten to the punch by some obscure observatory, yet this is precisely what happened recently. Experts using the Polaris Observatory Association's Centurion 28 telescope have just discovered a companion for NGC 4449.
This dwarf galaxy ... |
9 February 2012
09:40 GMT |
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Trying to understand how the atmosphere, its clouds, and the oceans underneath behave without taking into account the fact that the planet is spinning is a futile exercise. In order to help students and laymen alike, experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) Department of Earth and Space Sciences ... |
1 February 2012
11:08 GMT |
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As evidenced decades ago, Earth is surrounded by a couple of radiation belts, atmospheric structures that contain large amounts of dangerous charged electrons. Some experts suggested that increased solar activity might be capable of driving them towards the surface, but new data shows that to be false.
Researchers d... |
30 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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A pill developed to combat a type of skin cancer called melanoma manages to treat the condition, but boosts patients' risks of developing secondary, different types of skin cancer. The substance is called vemurafenib, and is sold under the brand name Zelboraf.
When oncologists recommend this therapy to their pa... |
19 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) scientists determined that teens who exhibit a deficiency of iron tend to be at higher risk of suffering conditions affecting the brain later on in life.
The risk mostly addresses forms of dementia such as Alzheimer’s disease. This correlation has been hinted at ... |
16 January 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Evolutionary “detectives” at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) recently took it upon themselves to identify the reasons why primates exhibit such a wide array of facial features. In order to do that, they analyzed the faces of 129 male primates of different species.
The test “part... |
12 January 2012
05:38 GMT |
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Matchbox has announced that five Admissions Offices at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the MBA program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management are the first six university programs in the world to use the iPad-centric Matchbox solution that re-thinks the admissions process so that universities can focus on r... |
19 December 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Scientists with Aneeve Nanotechnologies announce the development of a low-cost, ink-jet printing technology that could make the production of organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) a lot faster and cheaper. The method was optimized to use carbon nanotubes.
The company is based on the California NanoSystems Institute ... |
1 December 2011
09:24 GMT |
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At this time, indium tin oxide (ITO) transparent electrodes are widely used for the creation of electronics such as liquid crystal displays, but a team of researchers has just developed a way of replacing the chemical with a combination of nanomaterials including silver nanowires.
The reason why ITO needs to be rep... |
22 November 2011
16:01 GMT |
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For high school and college students, practicing transcendental meditation (TM) could prove to be one of the easiest, surest ways of reducing the amount of emotional distress they are subject to on a daily basis. The conclusion belongs to a study carried out at the University of California in Los Angeles.
Back in 2... |
17 November 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Researchers at the Washington University in St. Louis are currently investigating the origins of a pallasite meteorite that was identified by space rock hunter Karl Aston back in 2009. The object belongs to an extremely rare category of meteorites, of which only 20 are known in the entire US.
This particular one t... |
12 November 2011
14:11 GMT |
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Even though major depressive disorder (MDD) is one of the most widespread conditions among seniors, scientists are still at a loss in explaining how the diseases develops. In a new study, experts use a unique brain scan technique to observe the development of the condition in seniors' brains.
What researchers ... |
9 November 2011
04:55 GMT |
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University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) scientists say that the number of troubled teens who kill themselves every year could be significantly reduced if authorities, doctors and parents agree to specialized mental health interventions from early on.
In a paper published in the November issue of the journal ... |
4 November 2011
06:50 GMT |
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The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) a $4.5 million (€3.26 million), four-year grant for the development of advanced types of carbon nanotubes (CNT).
These tiny constructs have tremendously complex applications in anything from optics and m... |
3 November 2011
06:40 GMT |
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Officials from the Los Angeles Police Department recently asked a group of mathematicians at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) to help them determine which violent street gangs were involved in violent crimes that are unsolved even now.
The UCLA group was able to develop a series of mathematical ... |
29 October 2011
04:55 GMT |
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A team of scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Policy Research has recently determined that about 2.5 million children in California are exposed to second-hand smoking regularly.
This happens despite the fact that the state has the second-lowest smoking rate in the Unite... |
28 October 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Investigators based at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) say that prostate cancer patients ate low-fat diets between four and six weeks before having their prostate removed exhibited lower cancer cell growth rates than their peers.
The study was meant to c... |
26 October 2011
04:38 GMT |
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University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) investigators say that the brains of autistic children do not develop as fast and as efficiently as the brains of healthy kids of comparable age and status.
This discovery potentially indicates new avenues of research when it comes to understanding autism, and developi... |
21 October 2011
05:57 GMT |
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According to investigators at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC), a new method of scanning for chemicals that could potentially treat aggressive brain tumors has just been developed.
The approach is currently being used to analyze and gage the potential ef... |
14 October 2011
06:35 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announces the discovery of bacteria that appear to increase the risk a person has of developing pancreatic cancer. According to the team, more than 31 types of microorganisms have been associated with this cancer.
Pancreatic cancer is o... |
14 October 2011
03:44 GMT |
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Thanks to a new investigation conducted on the so-called “secret life” of American teenagers, experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) now have a deeper understanding of what makes today's young adults tick.
Some of the aspects the team looked at included the health, religiou... |
7 October 2011
04:00 GMT |
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Investigators from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have determined that the efficiency with which we remember things is directly correlated to the frequency our brain waves operate at when we are exposed to the new data, scenarios, people, emotions or places.
This is the first time such a study ... |
4 October 2011
10:56 GMT |
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Researchers at the University of California in Los Angles (UCLA) have recently determined how the HIV TAT cell-penetrating peptide is capable of breaching cellular defenses in order to deliver its cargo. The findings could be used to create highly-advanced, molecular drug delivery systems.
At this point, an import... |
4 October 2011
05:44 GMT |
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According to the conclusions of a comprehensive research conducted by experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), the tobacco industry had “deep, intimate” knowledge of the cancer-causing potential of radioactive alpha particles in cigarettes, yet failed to disclose this to consumers.
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29 September 2011
04:42 GMT |
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An international collaboration of geneticists featuring researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announces the completion of a massive scientific endeavor, the mapping of the entire mouse genome. The work could help us develop new cures for human diseases.
Due to the fact that many of th... |
27 September 2011
07:59 GMT |
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In a paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed scientific journal Neuron, experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) reveal the discovery of a new signaling pathway in the human brain that may be used as a target for therapies against fronto-temporal dementia.
This form of dementia aff... |
26 September 2011
03:57 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have recently completed a new scientific study on the different neural effects that various types of ads and commercials have. Such links have been only marginally understood before.
Psychologists and neurologists have known for a long time that dif... |
21 September 2011
05:43 GMT |
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A group of researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) says that studies conducted on the effects that the chemical steroid cholesterol has on the brain have revealed a potential role for it in the fight against highly-aggressive forms of brain cancer, such as glioblastomas.
Investigators h... |
16 September 2011
06:02 GMT |
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In a new study on the influence of human saliva on the development of head and neck cancer, researchers in the United States determined that the main active ingredient in the spice turmeric, called curcumin, plays an important part in suppressing a very important cell signaling pathway.
That particular pathway pla... |
15 September 2011
08:43 GMT |
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In a groundbreaking new discovery, researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announce that genes may play an important role in determining people's sense of optimism, self-esteem and mastery. The latter is a feeling people get when they are in control of their own lives.
Together, the... |
14 September 2011
14:21 GMT |
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A collaboration of researchers from the California Institute of Technology and the University of California in Los Angeles discovered in a new study that a very specific region of the brain dictates how humans will react at the sight of an animal, be it a pet or otherwise.
In most people, the sight of a furry ani... |
9 September 2011
08:02 GMT |
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A new study published in the scientific journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research shows that smokers who are trying to quit the habit but also suffer from other disorders could fare significantly better if they undergo smoking cession counseling.The research was primarily focused on individuals who suffer from alcohol an... |
5 September 2011
04:39 GMT |
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According to the results of a new scientific study carried out by investigators at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), it would appear that suffering a traumatic brain injury (TBI) can lead to people being exposed to an increased risk of Parkinson's disease.Similar associations between TBI and ne... |
22 August 2011
04:44 GMT |
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Regenerative medicine, the field of science seeking to use stem cells for treating a wide variety of disease, has some tough challenges ahead, according to a two-year study published by experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) in the August 16 issue of the journal Cell Research.The team focused i... |
20 August 2011
06:42 GMT |
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Experts investigating Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn, recently discovered a white arrow on the object's surface. About the size of Texas, this structure went unexplained for quite some time. Now, scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles propose an explanation for its existence.The UCLA ... |
16 August 2011
04:42 GMT |
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A group of investigators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) managed to understand why a material widely used for creating lithium-ion batteries actually works.Up until now, lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO4) has been heavily used to produce the posi... |
12 August 2011
08:25 GMT |
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While studying newts and salamanders, researchers figured out that these animals can heal their damaged hears if the need arises. Humans cannot do this, and the reason why has always eluded scientists. Now, US investigators propose a new explanation for this inability. In order to provide the most relevant results, s... |
11 August 2011
04:53 GMT |
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A group of engineers at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) says that smartphones and laptops of the future may be capable of replenishing their batteries from the environment. The team is working on a method of transforming the devices' LCD screens into energy-harvesting instruments.According to... |
10 August 2011
02:57 GMT |
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The development of cancer and a host of other diseases is controlled by certain genes, which are either turned on or off to promote or inhibit progress. Researchers in the United States have just recently finished mapping a DNA modification in stem cells, whose power could be harnessed for new cures.
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23 July 2011
02:41 GMT |
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Certain types of microorganisms use Batman-like grappling hooks to slingshot their way across surfaces. This allows them to move while consuming energy only in short bursts. Other species of bacteria have yet to master this technique.Another common form of motion is a jerky approach called twitching motility. Bacteri... |
19 July 2011
08:14 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) recently finished conducting a new study, which demonstrates that old age has a significant influence on the master circadian clock in the human brain. This region is called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN). The team determined that critically-importan... |
19 July 2011
07:59 GMT |
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In less than 10 days, the NASA Dawn spacecraft will enter orbit around Vesta, the largest asteroid in our solar system. The probe has been traveling towards the giant space rock since 2007. A few weeks ago, the spacecraft saw Vesta for the first time. Images of the object were snapped using the navigations cameras on... |
6 July 2011
04:36 GMT |
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Until the 1970s, experts did not distinguish unicellular organisms called archaea from bacteria and eukaryotes. But now that these lifeforms are understood more than they were four decades ago, experts are beginning to take a deep interest in the energy storage structures these cells have.One of the things that stand... |
6 July 2011
02:46 GMT |
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Stem cells are the basis from which all other cells in the human body form. They can differentiate into any type of tissue, but only certain types of stem cells can take on certain forms. Now, researchers find a new type of airway stem cells. The team, which is based at the University of California in Los Angeles (UC... |
29 June 2011
03:41 GMT |
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According to the conclusion of a new research by University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), it would appear that teens maintain their religious beliefs steady throughout high school, while most other aspects of their lives change.
High school is known to be the place and time where young adults find their ni... |
18 June 2011
05:28 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that even low-scale climate fluctuations can affect the habitability of marine ecosystems to a great extent. The researchers who led the work say that the size and harshness of oceanic dead zones is directly correlated to climate. In the investigation, researchers ... |
17 June 2011
03:58 GMT |
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The Dawn space probe is scheduled to soon enter orbit around the largest asteroid in the solar system, Vesta. The massive space object is already within reach, and instruments aboard the probe can already see it as a very distant object. At this point, the massive asteroid is located about 143 million miles from Eart... |
10 June 2011
03:00 GMT |
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The poor implementation of key national guideline-recommended therapies may be responsible for as much as 68,000 deaths per year in the United States alone. All of these people could survive, if the country were to implement the therapy courses in an optimal manner. Some of the therapies include prescribing and insta... |
7 June 2011
05:24 GMT |
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A group of scientist at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) announces a breakthrough in their understanding of how biological sensors function. These are critical components of cellular control systems, that is in charge of controlling the flow of potassium into the cell.As such, these sensors are capa... |
7 June 2011
05:08 GMT |
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