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Researchers create 3-D laser maps that show how earthquake changes landscape

Geologists have a new tool to study how earthquakes change the landscape down to a few inches, and it's giving them insight into how earthquake faults behave. In the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Science, a team ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study shows how DNA finds its match

It's been more than 50 years since James Watson and Francis Crick showed that DNA is a double helix of two strands that complement each other. But how does a short piece of DNA find its match, out of the millions ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop method of directing stem cells to increase bone formation and bone strength

A research team led by UC Davis Health System scientists has developed a novel technique to enhance bone growth by using a molecule which, when injected into the bloodstream, directs the body's stem cells to travel to the ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Rituximab possible treatment option for patients with primary biliary cirrhosis

An open-label study of rituximab, a monoclonal antibody for human CD20, was shown to be safe in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) who had an incomplete response to the standard ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) therapy, ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Stock values rise when companies disclose 'green' information, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- A UC Davis study finds that it pays to be green, as companies that are open about their greenhouse gas emissions and carbon reduction strategies see stock values rise.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Article addresses the e-patient phenomenon

A team of scholars from the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis and the University of Maryland School of Nursing published the first article in academic nursing literature about the electronic-savvy patient, or ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How do you fight fire in space? Experiments provide some answers

Improving fire-fighting techniques in space and getting a better understanding of fuel combustion here on Earth are the focus of a series of experiments on the International Space Station, led by a professor ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Ultrasound male contraceptive, overlooked for decades, confirmed to work

Imagine a contraceptive that could, with one or two painless 15-minute non-surgical treatments, provide months of protection from pregnancy. And imagine that the equipment needed were already in physical therapists' ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Walnut diet slows tumor growth in mice

(Medical Xpress) -- Mice genetically programmed to develop prostate cancer had smaller, slower growing tumors if they consumed a diet containing walnuts, UC Davis researchers report in the current issue of the British Jo ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Keep an eye on stock short sellers to avoid losing in bond investments too, study says

(PhysOrg.com) -- Savvy investors who follow short sellers to predict bearish news about a company’s stock -- and sell their stocks in that company to avoid losses -- should keep an eye on the company’s bonds as ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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