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Does the impossible burger promise an impossible future?

May 28, 2018

Plant-based meat product may have better environmental, health impacts In 2011, Patrick Brown founded Impossible Foods Inc., which is based in Silicon Valley. The company...

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Using light to see the brain

May 27, 2018

New research improves noninvasive brain imaging What might a stroke patient, a drowning person, and someone with severe traumatic brain injury have in common? If...

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Tracking violence from police encounters

May 21, 2018

Half of threatening encounters end with violence, racial bias exists Chris Smith, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology, started collecting data about violent...

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Native-born mothers in US show higher infant mortality rates

May 21, 2018

California researchers find that several factors, including social experiences, can negatively impact pregnancies Researchers at UC Davis and the University of North Carolina have found...

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The pain project at UC Davis

May 20, 2018

How design might help the opioid crisis Depression. Migraines. Broken bones. Pain can take many different forms. When one considers the ways in which age,...

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Team Gunrock competes in Amazon’s Alexa Prize Challenge

May 20, 2018

UC Davis students build improved social bot Currently, most chatbots are task-oriented. They can answer questions or complete a task, but they can’t necessarily hold...

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No Clucks Given for Backyard Birds

May 17, 2018

A UC Davis study found regulations for keeping, maintaining chickens are lacking in many areas A recent UC Davis study showed that, while more people...

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Motherhood in the academy

May 14, 2018

Despite challenges, mothers in academia continue to thrive A recent article in “The Scientific American” by professor Rebecca Calisi in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology...

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The peculiar case of koala gut biomes

May 14, 2018

Disruption of koala microbes raise questions for microbial biologists A recent study from the Jonathan Eisen Lab at UC Davis looked at how the gut...

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Startup Class to Japa Mafia

May 14, 2018

Class for aspiring entrepreneurs can help students create small businesses Creating a business venture from the ground up seems like a daunting task. So how...

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Human amygdala growth different in cases of autism

May 10, 2018

Critical region for emotion and social cues shows decline in cell numbers in autism, increase in cell numbers in neurotypical brains Researchers at the UC...

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Yeast Originated in China

May 10, 2018

Large-scale genomic survey of S. cerevisiae genome provides new information on evolution, origin of yeast For thousands of years we have relied on yeast to...

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Paying attention to long-term meditation

May 7, 2018

UC Davis study shows the long-term benefits of meditation training on sustained attention, age-related cognitive decline No matter how hard one concentrates, staring at one...

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The waters beneath our feet

May 6, 2018

Studying groundwater to protect health, water needs of the future Water has been a precious resource in California’s modern history. Many conflicts have been waged...

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PLASMA at UC Davis celebrates first year with Demo Day

May 4, 2018

Entrepreneurship program culminated 12-week program with event for companies, investors Curing breast cancer, keeping Unitrans buses clean and coaching athletes online — all of these...

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