Congratulations to Michael Alfaro for the Faculty Student Development DEI Award! The selection of these winners is often difficult as each of the many candidates nominated for these awards have made enormous contributions to encouraging that environment in important and innovative ways.
A new UCLA study suggests that the Zika virus possesses the ability to mutate rapidly. The team identified substantial DNA changes between the strains, showing a split between the Asian and African lineages, as well as the human and mosquito versions.
While research has identified hundreds of genes required for normal memory formation, genes that suppress memory are of special interest because they offer insights into how the brain prioritizes and…
Congratulations to Lauren Phinney for receiving the jane b semel HCI Appreciation and Recognition Award for 2016! The award was created to recognize UCLA community members who demonstrated their support of the principles of the Healthy Campus Initiative.
Evolution is thought to proceed through the gradual accumulation of independent mutations in each new generation. In a study published online today in Genome Research, researchers analyzing hominid genomes have…
The genome of the Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla ssp. gorilla) has been sequenced at a high level of quality beginning to approach that of the human genome, says a…