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...University of North Carolina began trials of a breast-cancer vaccine based on bioengineered dendritic cells--rare white blood cells that act as scouts for the immune system. These lock onto a protein called HER-2/neu found in the tumors of a third of all breast cancers. At UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center, researchers are working on a vaccine to treat brain cancer. Still other scientists are experimenting with vaccines for kidney, colon, pancreatic and ovarian cancer...
...concerned, as UCLA coaching legend John Wooden is, that dunking will cause the death of the pure, passing-oriented game that women's basketball is known for? You shouldn't be. Dunking doesn't equal selfishness. The Starzz barely missed the playoffs last year, and lost two games down the stretch by three or fewer points. Would taking more really high-percentage shots really have been all that selfish...
...appears there is a large and stubborn minority of the population who do not share Ramstetter's priorities. Professors at UCLA recently conducted the first of what is to be an annual, large-scale study of patterns of Internet usage. The first survey, while offering good news on the gender and race front--more women went online last year than men, more blacks and Latinos than whites--uncovered a whole new group of disaffected--those who are Luddites and proud of it. Half of those with no Internet access, around 20%, were simply not interested in getting online. "That will...
...Connell high school's computer lab. It was packed with students for six hours of voluntary, credit-free SAT prep one baking-hot San Francisco Saturday afternoon in November. Diana Valdivia, a junior, signed up for the program just a few weeks earlier and is now aiming for UCLA. "I'm doing this for my future," she says...
...UCLA astronomer Andrea Ghez, meanwhile, has focused her attention on the center of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, far closer than Djorgovski's gamma-ray bursts but hundreds of times farther away than Marcy's planets. Shrouded in thick clouds of dust, the galactic core is invisible to ordinary light detectors. But among the Keck's suite of specialized instruments is an electronic camera sensitive to infrared light--the same kind of invisible light that your remote control uses to communicate with your TV. Infrared light of some wavelengths can penetrate dust as though it weren't there, giving...