The development of maternal egg cells is pivotal for survival – but also precarious. During meiosis, the DNA-containing ...

While photos of littered beaches and floating garbage patches are unsettling, perhaps the most problematic plastic is barely ...

Mountain lions in greater Los Angeles are proactively shifting their activity to avoid interacting with cyclists, hikers, ...

Are all the products on store shelves that claim to be probiotic or prebiotic really good for you? A UC Davis microbiologist ...

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Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world’s population, but most farmers don’t grow high-yielding varieties ...

Consumers may have noticed a recent trend in food and beverage products labeled probiotic or prebiotic. The products often ...

A year after an outbreak of H5N1 killed thousands of elephant seals, only about a third of the seals normally expected here ...

In his first-year seminar dubbed “Could a Robot Ever Be Conscious?” Professor Richard Huskey guides students to discuss ...

Stephanie Hampton is the newly appointed director of the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center, beginning in spring of ...

No matter our background or belief systems, every human being deserves to have access to healthy and adequate food. This is ...

Carolyn Lundquist, Ph.D. ’00, prompted by a high school career test, studied communication at UCLA, until an elective ...