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Promising Path: Stem Cell Research Breaks Ground in Regenerating Skeletal Muscle
Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA are one step closer to developing stem cell therapies to regenerate skeletal muscle in humans. Working in mice, the UCLA team discovered…
UCLA Maintains Its Gold Streak: Awarded National Bicycle Friendly University Honors
The good times on two wheels keep rolling on campus. The League of American Bicyclists has once again bestowed on UCLA its Gold-level Bicycle Friendly University award for making biking a breeze for Bruins, with resources that include…
Shedding Light on a Dark Issue: Experts Reveal How Light Pollution Affects Mountain Lions
As ambush predators, mountain lions thrive under the cover of darkness. But what happens in Southern California, where artificial light makes every night twice as bright as if there were a full moon?
Mountain lions alter their…
10th Annual Hollywood Diversity Report Highlights Increase in Racial and Ethnic Diversity on Top TV…
With the hot labor summer hitting Hollywood hard this year, the question of who gets hired in front of and behind the camera has never been more critical.
UCLA’s 10th annual Hollywood Diversity Report found more top TV shows featured…
Survival Instincts: Understanding How Mice Choose Between Eating and Drinking
Making decisions is hard. Even when we know what we want, our choice often leaves something else on the table. For a hungry mouse, every morsel counts. But what if the decision is more consequential than choosing between crumbs and cheese?…
Uncovering Hidden Treasures: Restoration Project in MIT’s Student Center
On an unusually cold day last February, pipes burst all over Massachusetts, including in the MIT Stratton Student Center (Building W20, affectionately called “The Stud” by students). There was widespread damage to the building, and despite…
Breakthrough Study Enhances Our Understanding of Visual Recognition Memory
Because figuring out what is new and what is familiar in what we see is such a critically important ability for prioritizing our attention, neuroscientists have spent decades trying to figure out how our brains are typically so good at it.…
Physicists Achieve Superconductivity and More Breakthroughs with Quasicrystals
In research that could jump-start interest into an enigmatic class of materials known as quasicrystals, MIT scientists and colleagues have discovered a relatively simple, flexible way to create new atomically thin versions that can be tuned…
MIT’s Innovations: Organizing ‘Spaghetti’ Software for Seamless Modifications
As a software engineer, Dan Sturtevant SM ’08, PhD ’13 had jobs where making a small change to a codebase was easy — and jobs where a similarly small change would cause other, seemingly random parts of the codebase to break down or…
Addressing Pollution: Cleaning up one of the World’s Most Commonly Used Substances
This past July, in the dusty basement of a building in Seattle, Washington, about 60 tons of concrete were poured as part of the renovation of a historic building. To an outsider, it looked like just another job site. Even to the workers…