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A national park with Hollywood history destroyed by fire — before and after | The Guardian
Along with miles of habitat and studied landscapes, a field station for UCLA’s La Kretz Center for California Conservation Science, jointly operated by the university and the National Park Service, was lost to the fire. Researchers at the center are using the tragedy as an opportunity to study the severity and the impact of the fire, and how the plants and animals will recover. The center’s director, Brad Shaffer, who is also a professor in ecology and evolutionary biology, is leading teams of scientists and volunteer students to catalog the recovery as it happens. It’s already clear the fire has had a big impact on the organisms that call this park home.
Warehouse market singled out as ‘hot’ in years ahead, UCLA report says | Southern California News Group
While much of the state’s commercial real estate market could weaken in three years, the Inland Empire remains a hot spot for growth, a UCLA report says. A new report from university economists suggests a slowdown in expansion by 2021. A big exception to this scenario, based on the worldwide growth of e-commerce, is the demand for more industrial space, largely in the Inland area. “The perspective for CRE markets in California is simply that industrial space — warehouses in particular — will remain the hot market in spite of the fluctuations of the economy and the threat of trade wars,” the UCLA Anderson Forecast Center report states.
Mudslides, snow and flash floods: an atmospheric river is soaking California | Vox
“There is now emerging evidence that these atmospheric rivers, at least along the West Coast of the US, have become more intense over the last few decades, and there’s certainly an expectation that they will become more intense as the climate continues to warm,” Daniel Swain, a University of California Los Angeles climate scientist, told Vox last year.
UCLA sells epigenetics tech to boost crops for farmers | Los Angeles Business Journal
“Discoveries that take place in our labs directly help solve global issues, and the fragility of the food system has been an issue of concern for some time now,” said Roger Wakimoto, UCLA vice chancellor for research, in a statement. “By licensing our technology to Inari, we’re able to apply high-impact research and scientific techniques to the private sector and watch the benefits unfold.”
California must address a statewide Latino physician shortage | California Health Report
(Commentary co-written by UCLA’s Sonja Diaz) Despite California’s leadership in expanding health coverage to a record number of Californians, we have a crisis that hardly anyone is addressing: Our state still fails to provide the quality — and quantity — of care needed by our largest ethnic group. According to research from the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Initiative, Latinos represent over 40 percent of California’s population but make up less than 12 percent of graduating physicians from the state’s medical schools. At the current rate, it will take 500 years to reach a point where the number of Latino physicians is proportional to the number of Latino patients.
Breast surgeons say all breast cancer patients should be offered genetic testing | Washington Post
But Deanna Attai, a breast surgeon at the University of California, Los Angeles and a former president of the breast surgeons’ group, said broader testing could give doctors and patients valuable information. Some recent studies, she said, suggest “we are missing a decent percentage of genetic mutation carriers and we are potentially undertreating them and not identifying family members” who might also be carriers and at higher risk for cancer.
Falling in love boosts women’s immune genes | Futurity
“A few years ago, [UCLA’s] Martie Haselton and I attended a talk by Steven Cole on the epigenetic and health consequences of being chronically lonely. Chronic inflammation is bad for health, and loneliness is one of the biggest predictors of mortality. Martie and I wondered if there could be a flipside to this ‘lonely’ epigenetics profile and we arrived at love.” … The 12-month paid study included both undergraduate and graduate students from the University of California, Los Angeles and centered on women only. A total of 47 women completed the research, which included blood draws and biweekly questionnaires. Depending upon their relationship timeline, women participated in the study for up to 24 months.
Hollywood’s fine art moment: collectors, boosters rally around Frieze fair | The Hollywood Reporter
Talented museum directors also changed the landscape: [UCLA’s Ann] Philbin, who took over the Hammer in 1999, is credited by many with “making UCLA’s modest university art gallery into a national museum that’s a central part of the discourse,” says Bruce Ferguson, president of Otis College of Art and Design.
Barbie introduces dolls with wheelchairs and prosthetic limbs | CNN
The toymaker also worked with UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and wheelchair experts to design a wheelchair, which the company said has been one of the most requested accessories from Barbie fans. (Also: Bustle)
Dems escalate gun fight a year after Parkland | The Hill
Adam Winkler, a professor at the UCLA School of Law, said the court’s ruling could set broad principles for guns in public that undermine concealed carry restrictions or raise the hurdle generally for gun control laws to survive judicial challenges. “While it’s true the NRA hasn’t done as well as some had expected under Donald Trump, I wouldn’t count them out yet,” Winkler said. “It’s one thing to have political energy; it’s another to have political results, and the two Supreme Court appointments are political results.”
How NASA’s Opportunity rover made Mars part of Earth | Smithsonian
MER came in the aftermath of failed mission proposals by Ray Arvidson, a professor at Washington University in St. Louis; Larry Soderblom of the U.S. Geological Survey; and Steve Squyres, a professor at Cornell University. Each of the three had been beaten by David Paige of University of California, Los Angeles, whose ill-fated Mars Polar Lander was selected for flight by NASA.
DNA methylation GrimAge strongly predicts lifespan and health span | Medical Xpress
Steve Horvath from the Department of Human Genetics at the University of California-Los Angeles, says, “When it comes to predicting lifespan, GrimAge is 18 percent more accurate than calendar age, and 14 percent better than previously described epigenetic biomarkers. With regard to predicting time to coronary heart disease, GrimAge is 61 percent more accurate than chronological age and 46 percent better than previously reported epigenetic biomarkers. In spite of this significant enhancement, however, it must be noted that neither age nor DNAmGrimAge is particularly good at predicting time to heart disease.”
Keytruda may be effective in helping treat brain cancer | Healthline
“By administering the immunotherapy before surgery, we activated the T cells within the tumor that were previously functionally impaired, which is essentially what helped extend people’s lives,” said Dr. Timothy F. Cloughesy, director of the neuro-oncology program at the University of California Los Angeles and a co-lead author the study. “We have found a way to use these checkpoint inhibitors in glioblastoma that we previously thought were ineffective.” ( UCLA’s Robert Prins also quoted)
The Pac-12 Networks are struggling worse than you imagine | Seattle Times
“We are working collectively to be in the best position for the next go around,’’ UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero said. “The quality of the network production is first-rate, and we feel there will be incredible interest in our content moving forward.”
