Jane Der

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• Chemical flags Alzheimer’s early

  Oct. 17, 2007 at 12:47 a.m.

  Significant advancements in brain scanning techniques and biological markers are allowing scientists to track the progression of Alzheimer’s disease earlier and with greater accuracy, marking a new era in the development of drugs that could halt or potentially prevent the disease.

• Feeling lonely? It might be in your genes

  Oct. 3, 2007 at 1:14 a.m.

  Though loneliness has often been defined by the amount of social interaction a person experiences, a recent study led by scientists at UCLA sheds new light on how loneliness may be linked to the most basic internal processes of our biology.

• Students’ sex experiences vary

  Sept. 23, 2007 at 12:07 a.m.

  With movies and television shows commonly portraying college students as eager to experiment sexually, students transitioning to college life may believe that they will be faced with a lot of pressure to be sexually active.

• Familiar smoking dangers found in hookah use

  Aug. 6, 2007 at 12:03 a.m.

  On any given Saturday night, large crowds of people may be lined up outside of Gypsy Café and Habibi Café on Broxton Avenue for hookah, a form of tobacco smoking which is becoming a growing trend in the United States, particularly among college-aged people.

• Dawn mission prepares for launch

  July 2, 2007 at 12:41 a.m.

  On July 7, a spacecraft will launch from Cape Canaveral, Fla., to embark on an eight-year mission led by UCLA professor of geophysics and space physics Christopher Russell to explore two planetary bodies between Mars and Jupiter.

• Meningitis survivor fulfills dream

  June 10, 2007 at 12:10 a.m.

  At this year’s graduation ceremony for the David Geffen School of Medicine, 26 year-old Kellie Lim walked across the stage on a pair of prosthetic legs to accept her diploma.

• New cancer test receives FDA approval

  March 1, 2007 at 1:03 a.m.

  Recent advancements in the health sciences have paved a new path to screening for recurring breast cancer with more accuracy. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved a microarray genetic ...

• Science&Health: Finding your right scent

  Feb. 21, 2007 at 12:02 a.m.

  Emerging research has begun to uncover how human bodies communicate with each other through scent, which may be a key to understanding sexual attraction in men and women. In a ...