Science & Technology

UC Davis experts answer questions on autism and the pandemic’s impact   By MONICA MANMADKAR — science@theaggie.org   Since 1998, the UC Davis MIND Institute has been working to improve the lives of people with autism spectrum disorder, especially children and their families. On April 28, three UC Davis experts spoke on the advances that […]

Pluralist is an initiative aimed at recognizing the needs of underserved communities in need of life-saving organ transplant surgeries   By BRANDON NGUYEN — science@theaggie.org   According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Black Americans are almost four times more likely and Latino Americans are 1.3 times more likely to experience kidney […]

The universe is expanding faster than models predict; dark matter could be the missing piece   By SONORA SLATER — science@theaggie.org   Our universe grows bigger every second, the space between galaxies stretching for billions of years. A value called the Hubble constant tells us the rate at which this expansion is happening, and, indirectly, […]

The program takes a multidisciplinary approach to make the standard of care more patient-centered   By BRANDON NGUYEN — science@theaggie.org   UC Davis Health has recently developed the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Program to provide a multidisciplinary approach to treating children with pulmonary hypertension, a condition that can be difficult to diagnose in children.  Dr. Brian […]

A research review discovered multiple positive long-term benefits of self-esteem that varied distinctly from the known negative effects   By MONICA MANMADKAR — science@theaggie.org   In a recent study at the University of Bern and UC Davis, researchers suggested that having high self-esteem can influence people’s lives in a positive manner.  Fascinated by self-esteem as […]

At the Telomere-to-Telomere consortium, researchers around the world collaborated to sequence the gaps left out by the initial human reference genome   By BRANDON NGUYEN — science@theaggie.org   The Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) consortium, an international group of researchers focused on developing the human reference genome, recently filled in the last 8% of genomic DNA that had […]

This study serves a potential model for Alzhiemer’s disease and depression   By MONICA MANMADKAR — science@theaggie.org   According to a study published on April 11 by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, rhesus monkeys are able to perceive their own heartbeats. Researchers from the California National Primate Research Center at the UC […]

The study, led by graduate students at UC Davis, looks at gaps in policy geared toward ending human-caused whale mortality   By SONORA SLATER — science@theaggie.org   Whales face a multitude of human-caused threats — from entanglement in crab traps, to marine debris, to increased noise pollution. The Ocean Protection Council plans to mitigate these […]

Long COVID includes sets of symptoms that usually last for three to six months after the infection, but no cause for this phenomenon is known   By BRANDON NGUYEN — science@theaggie.org   A study published in PLOS Medicine found that about one third of patients infected by COVID-19 experienced symptoms three to six months after […]

Research helps understand the latent impacts of wildfires on climate   By MONICA MANMADKAR — science@theaggie.org   UC Davis researchers in the Department of Environmental Toxicology saw increases in aerosol sizes in older plumes — clouds of gasses, smoke and debris rising from a fire — from wildfires in a recent study. Aerosols are suspended […]

The study, led by a UC Davis postdoctoral student, found that many organizations lacked data on employee demographics, especially on sexual orientation and disability status   By SONORA SLATER — science@theaggie.org   Professional science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) organizations are at times ineffective in their collection and application of data from demographic surveys, according […]

CAR T-cell immunotherapy may become the alternative option to current life-long retroviral therapy for HIV patients By BRANDON NGUYEN — science@theaggie.org   According to the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS/HIV or UNAIDS, around 38 million people worldwide live with HIV, a retrovirus that destroys a host’s own immune cells and can progress into AIDS […]