Lost memories might be able to be restored
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- Written by Stuart Wolpert
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Los Angeles, California - New UCLA research indicates that lost memories can be restored. The findings offer some hope for patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.
Combination drug therapy doubles positive effect of treatment for women with advanced breast cancer
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- Written by Reggie Kumar
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Los Angeles, California - In a groundbreaking study that offers new hope for women with advanced breast cancer, researchers from UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have published final clinical trial results that showed the amount of time women with advanced breast cancer were on treatment without their cancer worsening was effectively doubled when they took the experimental drug palbociclib.
Lens-free microscope can detect cancer at the cellular level
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- Written by Bill Kisliuk
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Los Angeles, California - UCLA researchers have developed a lens-free microscope that can be used to detect the presence of cancer or other cell-level abnormalities with the same accuracy as larger and more expensive optical microscopes.
Combining social media and behavioral psychology could lead to more HIV testing
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- Written by Enrique Rivero
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Los Angeles, California - Social media such as Twitter and Facebook can be valuable in the fight against HIV in the United States, where research has demonstrated they can prompt high-risk populations to request at-home testing kits for the virus that causes AIDS, suggesting a way to potentially boost testing rates.
UCLA engineers first to detect and measure individual DNA molecules using smartphone microscope
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- Written by Shaun Mason
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Los Angeles, California - Fluorescence microscopes use technology that enables them to accomplish tasks not easy to achieve with normal light microscopes, including imaging DNA molecules to detect and diagnose cancer, nervous system disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, and drug resistance in infectious diseases.
Psychologists show that altruism is not simply innate
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- Written by Bjorn Carey
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Stanford, California - Ever since the concept of altruism was proposed in the 19th century, psychologists have debated whether or not people are born into the world preprogrammed to be nice to others. Now, a pair of Stanford psychologists has conducted experiments that indicate altruism has environmental triggers, and is not something we are simply born with.
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