Two new UC Davis-led studies of progressive, neurodegenerative diseases linked to defects in the cells' mitochondria offer hope for developing a new biomarker for research and diagnostics, and a drug ...

New research shows microplastics are capable of carrying diseases that make us sick Scientists at UC Davis studied three main disease pathogens and found that they can hitch rides on microscopic ...

Dallas Hyde, an authority on the biology of asthma and other lung diseases, has been named as the new director of the California Regional Primate Research Center at UC Davis. Hyde, a professor in the ...

Groundbreaking research at UC Davis may have finally found a solution to a disease that costs California winemakers millions of dollars every year.

A UC Davis student is being treated at a local hospital after being diagnosed with having meningococcal disease.

Personalized CRISPR cures for children born with rare genetic diseases are now a step closer to being more widely available.

DAVIS, CA-Davis residents attended a series of meetings yesterday regarding UC Davis' proposed $190-million bio-defense and emerging diseases center, which would bring some of the most deadly and ...

UC Davis Health System researchers have discovered biological indicators that help explain why some obese people develop chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease, and others do not.

Graduate student Jason Davis doesn’t use a traditional lab to study prion diseases. Instead, he relies on computer modeling and applied mathematics.

Autoimmune diseases are conditions in which your immune system mistakenly damages healthy cells in your body. Types include rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and some thyroid conditions.

A study in Nature Aging from researchers at the UC Davis School of Medicine has identified specific microRNAs - non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression within cells - that likely contribute ...