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Holly Ober
I am excited to share our latest paper, Uniform bacterial genetic diversity along the gut, now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/n)
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How does the FDA-approved LAD-I gene therapy work?
Doctors take the patient's OWN stem cells, add a healthy copy of the mutated gene, and return them. No donor needed. No transplant rejection risk.
All 9 trial patients: restored immune systems.
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#GeneTherapy #StemCells
Nandita Garud
Congratulations to @ucla.edu prof Neil Garg (@cnsiatucla.bsky.social @uclacb.bsky.social @uclaphyssci) on receiving UCLA’s 2026 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring🏅
Learn more about the award in the link below: cnsi.ucla.edu/may-18-2026-...
UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center
River riddle solved! The Colorado River disappeared from the geological record for 5 million years. Scientists now know where it went: Into vanished Bidahochi Lake, before eventually spilling over on a course to the Grand Canyon. ucla.in/4dO9niX 🧪
California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA
After 20 years of legalized marriage for same-sex couples, 96 independent studies confirm there is no evidence for the harms critics predicted, writes UCLA psychology professor Benjamin Karney.
Planets smaller than giants like Neptune but bigger than Mars and Earth are the most common type of planet. Why doesn't our Solar System have any of these? UCLA astronomer Erik Petigura talks about planets that are mid with Robyn Williams for The Science Show. 🔭🧪
UCLA physicist Eric Hudson's team is working toward a clock based on a nucleus rather than an atom’s electrons, which could keep a steadier rhythm because it would be less sensitive to environmental disturbances such as temperature changes. They've found an answer in Thorium-229. 🧪
UCLA biologist Dan Blumstein writes that animals living in urban environments around the world exhibit common sets of behaviors. These urban animals are losing traits they would need in the wild. This “behavioral homogenization” accompanies the loss of species diversity with urbanization. 🧪
What happens when an alligator lizard walks into a UCLA biology building to escape the #heatwave? Professor Brad Schaeffer tells the @laist.com how this affects the #reptiles. 🧪
Holly Ober
The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪
We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF
Erik Petigura is a professor of physics and astronomy at UCLA who specialises in discovering planets smaller than giants like Neptune and bigger than Mars and Earth.
Our Solar System has none of thes...
Alligator lizards and other Southern California species are showing up about a month early thanks to the heat. And that carries some risks for these reptiles.
Distinguished Kenneth N. Trueblood Professor Neil Garg has been named one of three UCLA faculty members to receive the 2026 Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring from the UCLA Div...
