Los Angeles had more traffic deaths than homicides last year. At least 330 people were killed in vehicle collisions, the highest number in 20 years. Even as L.A. streets have become deadlier, the city ...

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“Since the discovery of transplantation as a life-saving therapy for blood malignancies by Dr. E Donnall Thomas, there have been major advances that have significantly lowered the side effects and ...

Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing is important in organ transplantation protocols, as they determine the likelihood of rejection. The HLA system is little understood, however. In simple terms, the ...

If there was any doubt in Los Angeles City Hall about whether residents actually support bike lanes, bus lanes and other pedestrian and safety improvements on local streets, Tuesday’s election ...

Prospective Multicenter Diagnostic Performance of Technologist-Performed Screening Breast Ultrasound After Tomosynthesis in Women With Dense Breasts (the DBTUST) We studied 2,391 single class I ...

It is the strength of these associations, and potential involvement in the immune reaction, that has seen these alleles suggested as candidates for pharmacogenetic testing either as predictive or ...

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HLA-Arena can be integrated in computational pipelines to support basic cancer research or to help inform physicians in preclinical settings. It can be used to perform structure-based selection of ...