Britain's Times and Daily Telegraph, Spain’s El Mundo, and ABC News Español report today on a study led by Dr. Daniel Geschwind, Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Chair in Human Genetics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, that links the capacity for speech and language in humans to the evolution of a single gene. The research was highlighted Wednesday by the New York Times, Science, New Scientist, Nature, the Associated Press, Reuters, Science News, CanWest News Service, Wired, Agence France-Press and Live Science. Geschwind was quoted in the coverage.

HealthDay News reports today on a study by researchers at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center that found that a drug frequently used to treat chronic myeloid leukemia can also inhibit the growth and invasiveness of certain types of ovarian cancer when combined with chemotherapy. Study author Dr. Gottfried Konecny, UCLA visiting assistant professor of hematology and oncology, is quoted. 

 

El Fadl, UCLA professor of law, is quoted today in a Los Angeles Times article about the challenges facing American Muslims serving in the U.S. military.

Ghurabi, medical director of the emergency department at Santa Monica–UCLA Medical Center, is quoted today in a Health News article about the H1N1 influenza.

Lamoreaux, UCLA professor of economics and history, is quoted today in a Wall Street Journal article about how the recession has led to a revival of American inventiveness.

 

LoPucki, Security Pacific Bank Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law, is quoted today in a Delaware News Journal article about the push for a national bar exam for attorneys.

 

Orfield, professor of education and co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA, was quoted Wednesday in a Chicago Tribune article about Chicago public schools' plans for maintaining racial integration in the wake of a federal order barring race as a factor in admissions.

 

Schiller, UCLA professor of hematology and oncology and a researcher at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, was quoted Tuesday in a Los Angeles Times article about Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's announcement that he has chronic myeloid leukemia. Schiller was also quoted in a KNX-1070 AM segment on the subject.

 

Siegel, professor of psychiatry and director of the Center for Sleep Research at the Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA, is quoted today in a Sacramento Bee article about how late-night legislative sessions affect California lawmakers' performance.