Science & Technology

UC Davis Center for Vision Science hosts the 2019 Annual Center for Vision Science Symposium The Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility Auditorium was packed with researchers, students and the general public as the Center for Vision Science hosted its Annual Symposium on January 11. The event featured updates from the center, research talks presented by […]

A new building on the UC Davis campus is a part of the growing trend of using wood in large structures to reduce carbon emissions. On the south side of campus, workers are busy installing a gigantic wooden roof that will cover the new Tercero Dining Commons 2, a new dining hall meant to accommodate […]

Crucial factor identified in effort to better understand how global warming will alter alpine lakes in the Sierra Nevada mountain range UC Davis researchers published a study in December examining how climate change is affecting lakes in the Sierra Nevada. The researchers worked with data that had been collected at Emerald Lake in Sequoia National […]

Rodent genome phenotyping may shed light on human ophthalmological diseases Imagine an assembly line of 20,000 mice being individually examined from head to toe. This is the project the International Mouse Phenotyping Consortium is tackling as entities of this consortium all around the world, including the UC Davis Mouse Biology Program, are creating single knockout […]

UC Davis science faculty find incorporating writing into traditional science classes improves academic performance among students. Writing may not be every scientist’s favorite subject. In order to change this, some UC Davis science professors are starting to incorporate writing into science coursework, from entry-level biological science courses to advanced, upper-division biochemistry and cell biology courses. […]

Total body scanner produces 3D videos and images with 40 times more detail Researchers at UC Davis have developed an improved PET scanner, a machine that produces images that doctors use to treat cancer and heart disease. The machine produced its first images last month. “We were blown away, we were so stunned by how […]

UC Davis researchers find a way to replicate crop plants through seeds Researchers at UC Davis have discovered a way to clone crop plants, making resilient crops more available to farmers everywhere. “We developed a method to make rice seeds that are clones of the mother plant,” said Venkatesan Sundaresan, a professor of plant biology […]

The George Lab aims to model tumor microenvironments and physiological networks for cancer patients three dimensionally. Though two-dimensional animal modeling has provided valuable information for human cellular interactions and disease mechanisms, it faces limitations. Human cells adopt different behaviors across two-dimensional and three-dimensional models. In the human body, cells are surrounded by other cells from […]

The team’s process in preparing for the competition After months of reading through articles, touring various farms and listening to experts, the UC Davis Animal Welfare Judging team’s efforts paid off as they placed well at the Animal Welfare Judging Contest held by the American Veterinary Medical Association at Colorado State University. The undergraduate team […]

UC Davis students organizing electrical engineering program to make grade school robotics more affordable, accessible. Undergraduate students at UC Davis are developing a new electrical engineering program for high school students across the Sacramento area. These students will receive robotics kits this month and begin a 10-week learning experience that will culminate in a robotics […]

UC Davis Researchers find that a novel cancer treatment is more effective in obese patients. Researchers at UC Davis found that a promising new cancer treatment called checkpoint immunotherapy works better in obese patients than it does in lean patients. The scientists, who published their research in Nature Medicine on November 12, originally hypothesized […]

Part seven of a continuing series about experiences on an archeological dig in Poland After looking at the wide selection of archeology field schools to attend last summer, I ended up picking one in Poland, run by the Slavia Foundation. There were many reasons why I chose that field school, one of which is that […]