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The Alchemist

UCLA researchers work daily to solve our most vexing medical riddles, and few face a more daunting challenge than Aparna Bhaduri....

UCLA study links length of REM sleep to body temperature

Warm-blooded animal groups with higher body temperatures have lower amounts of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, while those with lower body temperature...

UCLA to Participate in Phase 3 Trial Evaluating Monkeypox Treatment

The UCLA Clinical AIDS Research and Education (CARE) Center today announced its participation in STOMP (Study of Tecovirimat for Human Monkeypox Virus...

UCLA takes leading role in NIH Bridge2AI initiative to generate ‘computable knowledge’ that propels biomedical research forward

UCLA leads CDC-funded study on effectiveness of vaccines, boosters in ‘next phase’ of COVID

The David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA has been awarded a $13.6 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to continue to ...

UCLA Health researchers analyze LA’s ‘stunningly diverse’ genetic ancestry to bring ethnic equity to precision medicine

Analyzing genetic ancestry data from a large genomic repository – the UCLA ATLAS Precision Health Biobank – researchers have found a highly divers...

Antoni Ribas receives renewal of NCI Outstanding Investigator Award

Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, has received a renewal of an Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)....

Cell therapy could improve bone marrow transplant safety

UCLA researchers report a step forward in the development of an “off-the-shelf” cell therapy that could reduce the severity of graft-versus-host d...

UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center-led Study Looks at Quality-of-Life Outcomes and Toxicity Among Patients Treated with Novel Short Course Radiation Therapy for Recurrent Prostate Cancer after Prostatectomy

This study was designed to evaluate the use of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) to treat patients with localized prostate cancer following r...

Neurofeedback shows promise for addressing ‘chemo brain’ in UCLA pilot study

Restoring normal functioning in the brains of cancer patients through neurofeedback could potentially alleviate the mental fogginess that many report ...