Category Archives: Health
Obama’s BRAIN Initiative: UC Davis reaction
President Obama yesterday announced the broad outlines of a major new plan to study the human brain. The President is proposing a budget of about $110 million in 2o14 for the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies initiative, drawn from …
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Bioengineered cartilage: low oxygen makes it stronger
A new study published this month by Kyriacos A. Athanasiou’s lab in the Biomedical Engineering Department at UC Davis has shown for the first time that depriving cartilage cells of oxygen at just the right time increases collagen crosslinks and …
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Test for hormone-disrupting chemicals gets global seal of approval
A test for hormone-disrupting pollutants, originally developed at the University of California, Davis, has been approved as an international standard by the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development as well as by the U.S. government. “Endocrine disruptors” are chemicals that …
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Bad news for pears, but let the cows eat cake
Two sort-of nutrition related items that caught my eye today: Firstly, researchers at the UC Davis School of Medicine contradict the notion that a “pear-shaped” body is healthier than an “apple-shaped” one; second, some cattle ranchers stung by the high …
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BGI President Yang: “Let’s collaborate” on century of life science
Big numbers — of DNA base pairs sequenced, numbers of genomes completed, volumes of data collected and dollars invested — were in the air Nov. 9 when Dr. Huanming (Henry) Yang, president and cofounder of BGI (formerly the Beijing Genomics …
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UC Davis receives Gates Foundation “Grand Challenges Explorations” grants
Three UC Davis research teams are winners of Grand Challenges Explorations grants to support innovative global health and development research projects, an initiative funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. A group led by Professor Savithramma Dinesh-Kumar of the …
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Foods For Health Institute needs study volunteers
From the Food For Health Institute The UC Davis Foods for Health Institute is recruiting participants for two important projects in our Human Studies program. The Dairy Fat Inflammation study tests the effect of consuming different cheeses on the fats …
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Plastics chemical shows two-generation effect in pregnant monkeys
Exposure of pregnant monkeys to the widely-used chemical bisphenol A (BPA) disrupts development of fetal ovaries, potentially causing birth defects and reproductive problems that would not emerge for a generation, according to research by scientists at Washington State University and …
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People’s Choice Awards, science edition!
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is opening up its “HHSInnovates” program to public voting for the first time, and one of the projects in contention is the UC Davis-based 100K Genome Project to sequence the DNA of …
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UC Davis-led conference promotes new collaborations in Brazil
(Contributed by Carole Gan, UC Davis Health System) (SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — An interdisciplinary delegation of researchers and educators, led by UC Davis, met this month at the Integrated Biological Networks Driving Disease Outcomes conference in Uberlândia, Brazil, to explore new …
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