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Clues to Life on Mars in a Polluted California Mine
By Becky Oskin To find evidence of life on Mars, scientists from UC Davis and the U.S. Geological Survey are chasing clues in Mars-like environments on Earth. The environment at the Iron Mountain mine...
View ArticleSuccessful CRISPR Gene Editing in Non-Human Primates
By Carlos Villatoro Imagine a world where maladies such as cystic fibrosis, Huntington’s Disease, or sickle cell anemia no longer exist. While the U.S. is far from achieving this lofty goal, it...
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Banker Plants Control Rice Pests
By Kathy Keatley Garvey Rice farmers seeking to protect their crops from pests without high dependency on pesticides may want to consider the sustainable pest management practice known as the “banker...
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Wallflower or Center of the Pack? Baboons Find Their Place
By Karen Nikos-Rose Are you the kind of person who, at a party, tends to be surrounded by friends in the middle of the crowd, or do you prefer to find a quiet corner where you can sit and talk? Recent...
View ArticlePodcast: Science at the Root
In this episode of our Three Minute Egghead podcast, UC Davis plant biologist Siobhan Brady talks about her work on roots. Roots are the key innovation that allowed plants to conquer the land. They...
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UC Davis Mouse Biology Program Developing “Green” Mouse House
By Dawn Rowe The UC Davis Mouse Biology Program (MBP) has received an award of $414,000 from the National Institutes of Health to move towards sustainable, environment-friendly technology for its...
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Surprise Result: Increasing Dispersal Increases Ecological Diversity
By Kathy Keatley Garvey A study of microbes that live in the nectar of flowers has turned up an unexpected result that challenges a common assumption in ecology. It’s been widely assumed that the more...
View ArticleUC Davis Launches Cross-Campus Microbiome Initiative
By Ana Lucia Cordova-Kreylos The UC Davis Office of Research this week (July 10) announced the launch of the Microbiome Special Research Program (SRP), designed to leverage and build upon the broad and...
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UC Davis Joins DARPA-funded “Safe Genes” Program
Initiative Aims to Support Responsible CRISPR Gene Editing By Trina Wood The federal Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) last week announced the Safe Genes program to explore innovative...
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DNA Repair Gone Wrong Leads to Cascade of Chromosome Rearrangements
Homologous Recombination Can Cause More Breaks As It Fixes Them The traditional view of cancer is that a cell has to sustain a series of hits to its DNA before its defenses break down enough for it to...
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“Insect Allies” Enlisted to Protect Maize Crops from Pests
Researchers at UC Davis, the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) at Cornell University, the University of Minnesota and Iowa State University have received a four-year, $10.3 million “Insect Allies” award...
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From a Student Competition to a Potential Treatment for Celiac Disease
Synthetic DNA Approach is Key to Startup’s New Drug By Lisa Howard The way Justin Siegel describes it, ordering synthetic DNA is almost as easy as ordering a pair of shoes online. “You just type it in...
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New Cardiac Catheter Combines Light and Ultrasound to Measure Plaques
By Holly Ober To win the battle against heart disease, cardiologists need better ways to identify the composition of plaque most likely to rupture and cause a heart attack. Angiography allows them to...
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Fabric from Fermented Tea in the Biomaker Lab
The Molecular Prototyping and BioInnovation Laboratory, or “Biomaker Lab” at UC Davis is a place where students can try out their ideas and develop their own projects in biotechnology. It reflects as...
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Hear This: Knockout Mice Show Genes Linked to Deafness
Fifty-two newly discovered genes that are critical for hearing have been found by testing gene-modified ‘knockout’ mice. The newly identifed genes will provide insights into the causes of hearing loss...
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Crowdsourced Game Aims to Find Solutions to Aflatoxin
Mars, Inc., UC Davis and partners have launched a crowdsourcing initiative to solve the problem of aflatoxin contamination of crops. A series of aflatoxin puzzles will go online on Foldit, a platform...
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Live Fast Die Young: Updating Signal Detection Theory
Signal Detection Theory is a popular and well-established idea that has influenced behavioral science for around 50 years. Essentially, the theory holds that in a predator-prey relationship, prey...
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Genome Project Aims to Restore Health of Redwood and Giant Sequoia Forests
By Ann Filmer Some trees are better at surviving drought, fire, pests, and diseases than others. By identifying the genes responsible for these adaptations, scientists can compile a scalable database...
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See-through Zebrafish May Hold Clues to Ovarian Cancer
by Greg Watry For thousands of years, animals have helped humans advance biomedical research. Early Greeks, such as Aristotle and Galen, studied animals to gain insights into anatomy, physiology and...
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UC Davis Genome Researchers Facilitating NIH Data Commons Pilot
Researchers at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and Genome Center are taking part in an ambitious NIH initiative to make it easier for scientists to share research data and scientific tools...
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