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Leonard Rome quoted in major article

Nanovaults Used to Prod Immune System to Fight Cancer –The discovery of a new way to wake up the immune system using nanoparticle vaults was covered May 3 by Examiner.com, PhysOrg.com and Genetic Engineering News; May 4 by Drug Discovery...

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UCLA Chancellor Gene Block led a delegation to the White House

UCLA Chancellor Gene Block led a delegation to the White House for President Obama’s announcement of a new federal effort to fund research to better understand the function of the human brain. Professor Kelsey Martin, chair of the...

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Marian Swendseid passed away on January 14, 2014 at the age of 95. Dr. Swendseid held her secondary appointment with the Department of Biological Chemistry. A scholarship fund has been established by the American Society for Nutrition Foundation...

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Judith Gasson announces that she will retire in January, 2015. Dr. Gasson has been a member of the UCLA faculty since 1983. She currently serves as Director of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC), President of the Jonsson Cancer...

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Leonid Kruglyak published “Genetics of Single-Cell Protein Abundance Variation in Large Yeast Populations” in Nature. This paper reports using different strains of yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to study how strongly a certain gene...

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Utpal Banerjee paper becomes the cover on Cell

Dr. Utpal Banerjee published “Olfactory Control of Blood Progenitor Maintenance” in Cell. A MP3 audio interview for this paper is also available at: http://www.cell.com/abstract/S0092-8674%2813%2901350-0 . Select the...

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Reid Johnson published “Multiple Interaces between a Serine Recombinase and an Enhancer Control Site-Specific DNA Inversion” in eLife.  

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Congratulations to: Hilary Coller who has received The New Idea Award from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, a grant program designed to identify novel research strategies with high potential for high impact on the future of blood cancer...

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Congratulations to Alison Frand, who has received the grant Characterizing New Apical Matrix Proteins from NSF. She will receive $80,000 dedicated for her research for three years.

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