Research

Ten veterinarians, researchers, and PhD students from the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine’s Veterinary Assisted Reproduction Laboratory and the Equine Reproduction Service attended the International Symposium on Equine Reproduction held recently in Brazil.

UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine researchers recently reported on the successful long-term detection of bisphosphonates in equine hair samples.

Inaugural Reaching Across the Causeway awards will fund collaborative pilot studies between researchers at the UC Davis Schools of Veterinary Medicine and Medicine to address complex health issues.

New work by scientists in the U.S. and China shows how a fertilized egg cell, or zygote, hits ‘reset’ so that the newly formed embryo can develop according to its own genetic program.

Experimental treatment saved a kitten’s life after he was found abandoned at a Sacramento park suffering from an illness that is usually fatal in cats.

Eighteen million years ago, a genetic duplication event coincided with the evolutionary split between horses and their four-toed, forest-browsing ancestors.

When a clinical trial takes place to test drug efficacy, there is much more to the study than simply assessing whether a drug works.

Early in her veterinary studies, Dr. Sarah Michalak knew that she wanted to pursue research, but she needed a mentor to direct that passion.

UC Davis veterinary surgeons and cardiologists recently published research on the outcomes of thoracoscopic treatment of idiopathic chylothorax in dogs.

This recently published case study was the result of treatment on a cat by the UC Davis veterinary team from 2006-09. Recently, a UC Davis veterinary student took interest in the “cold case” and published the results.