Imperial Valley News Center
UCLA researchers help create ‘gold standard’ method for measuring a key early sign of Alzheimer’s disease
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- Written by Mark Wheeler
Los Angeles, California - After six years of painstaking research, a UCLA-led team has validated the first standardized protocol for measuring one of the earliest signs of Alzheimer’s disease - the atrophy of the part of the brain known as the hippocampus.
Nanotechnology platform shows promise for treating pancreatic cancer
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- Written by Shaun Mason
Los Angeles, California - Scientists at UCLA’s California NanoSystems Institute and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center have combined their nanotechnology expertise to create a new treatment that may solve some of the problems of using chemotherapy to treat pancreatic cancer.
Piatigorsky International Cello Festival Returns to Los Angeles
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- Written by Evan Calbi
Los Angeles, California - The USC Thornton School of Music and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, in partnership with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, will present the 2016 Piatigorsky International Cello Festival in May 2016.
LED light bulbs could save lives in developing countries
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- Written by Andrew Good
Los Angeles, California - How many researchers does it take to change a light bulb? And how many lives could they save by changing it?
‘Refuge’ for the endangered Delta smelt
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- Written by Kat Kerlin
Davis, California - Delta smelt are hard to find. Federally listed as threatened in 1993 and as endangered under the California Endangered Species Act in 2009, they are an iconic species for water issues in the state. But there’s one place where the fish can be found by the thousands - the Fish Conservation and Culture Laboratory at the University of California, Davis.
History of the human-animal relationship is key to nature preservation
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- Written by Barbara Wilcox
Stanford, California - From habitat protection and anti-cruelty laws to discourse about hunting and veganism, animals seem to get a lot of consideration in 21st-century Western culture.
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