Science & Technology

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 […]

Some of the collections have recently been featured by the university during Biodiversity Museum Day on March 6 and an episode of UC Davis Live on March 31 By SONORA SLATER — science@theaggie.org   Hidden behind the UC Davis Physics Building, in the Academic Surge on Crocker Lane, the R.M. Bohart Museum of Entomology houses […]

Swoop Portable MRI system is the first FDA approved portable MRI device that can be driven to the patient bedside for quick MRI scans By BRANDON NGUYEN — science@theaggie.org   This past month was National Brain Trauma Awareness Month, recognizing the unique life-changing narratives of patients who have undergone brain injuries and the need for […]

UC Davis researchers partnered a synthetic drug with a new plant product to reduce neuroinflammation By MONICA MANMADKAR — science@theaggie.org Kurarinone, a plant product derived from a pea plant, was combined with an enzyme inhibitor to create a method to alleviate neuroinflammation in Parkinson’s disease. Partnered with researchers at the Dalian Medical University in China, […]

The transgenic lettuce contains a fusion protein that can counteract the loss of bone density in microgravity By SONORA SLATER — science@theaggie.org   Our bodies were made to interact with Earth’s gravitational pull. When astronauts take part in long spaceflights and encounter extended microgravity, there are side effects that occur — specifically, loss of bone […]