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Appears in 5 stories · Last updated Nov 10, 2026
Home campus of the likely institute recipient
California voters approved $8.4 billion in state bonds for immunology research, the largest sum ever authorized for science by a US public vote. About half of the money is reserved for a single research institute, and only one four-year-old center at UCLA appears to qualify.
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As of October 2026: Lead research institution
The Suriname toad is flat, tongueless, and nearly blind in murky water. Yet it captures fish with 87% accuracy even in total darkness.
Updated Oct 1
As of September 2026: Lead research institution for the dust decline study
Earth's atmosphere is getting less dusty. A study combining satellite records, ground stations, and atmospheric models found dust concentrations fell about 10 percent worldwide from 2003 to 2023, with comparable drops in North Africa and Asia.
Updated Sep 23
As of September 2026: Led the study and developed the clumped isotope technique for fossils
A Tyrannosaurus rex ran a body temperature of about 97 degrees Fahrenheit in life, nearly identical to a modern human. Chemists extracted the figure from rare isotope bonds preserved in fossilized tooth enamel — the first direct temperature measurement of the dinosaur.
Updated Sep 20
As of September 2026: Developed the AlloESO-T cell therapy platform
UCLA researchers have engineered cord blood stem cells into cancer-fighting T cells that can be mass-produced, frozen, and used off the shelf. In mice with ovarian cancer and melanoma, a single dose controlled tumors and extended survival without the graft-versus-host disease that plagues donor-derived cell therapies.
Updated Sep 11
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