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Research Expo Goes Virtual

Posted by Trina Wood on May 27, 2020
The school’s research committee, in collaboration with the Office of Research and Graduate Education, recently held a virtual Research Expo to discuss various aspects of COVID-19 research.
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UC Davis Receives Grant for Thoroughbred Research

Posted by Rob Warren on April 21, 2020

Grayson-Jockey Club Research Foundation announced that the UC Davis K.L. Maddy Equine Pharmacology Laboratory has been chosen as the research site for a project to help develop alternate methods for detection of bisphosphonates in Thoroughbreds. The research will be funded by Vinnie and Teresa Viola’s St. Elias Stables.

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Before and after images of a cat suffering from feline chronic gingivostomatitis that was treated with stem cells at the UC Davis veterinary hospital.

Veterinary Scientists Successfully Advance Treatment for Feline Chronic Gingivostomatitis

Posted by Rob Warren on March 16, 2020

Veterinary scientists at the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine have completed a multicenter clinical trial testing the use of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ASCs) to treat a debilitating oral disease in cats. Having previously found positive results in a trial performed exclusively at UC Davis, the team of veterinarians and researchers found similar positive results when expanding the trial to another veterinary school and two private veterinary clinics.

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Wildfire Smoke Carries Long-term Health Impacts

Posted by Trina Wood on February 24, 2020
Smoke from wildfires may have long-term health effects, according to research on juvenile monkeys. The results were presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle by the school's Professor Lisa Miller.
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Why are Irish Setters so Red?

Posted by Trina Wood on January 14, 2020
Geneticists at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine now have an answer for why some dogs have more intense coat colors than others.
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What's in Your Food?

Posted by Trina Wood on November 19, 2019
Food authentication is becoming increasingly important, as contamination and fraud can occur at any point within a supply chain. Professor Bart Weimer has collaborated with IBM researchers and industry partners to use metagenomics, analytics and cloud to build new ways to authenticate the composition of raw materials.
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Innovating Dairy Digester Research

Posted by Trina Wood on October 23, 2019
Dr. Pramod Pandey, a faculty member and cooperative extension specialist at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, focuses on better ways to manage dairy waste material for both large and small farms.
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Discovering How Toxoplasma Hijacks Host Cells to Ride to the Brain

Posted by Trina Wood on October 09, 2019
In a paper out today in Cell Host & Microbe, a collaborative team led by UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine researcher Jeroen Saeij identified one of the T. gondii genes responsible for how well the parasite survives in a host.
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Residents Win National Research Awards

Posted by Rob Warren on June 25, 2019
Four residents from the UC Davis veterinary hospital recently took home research awards from the 2019 American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) annual conference. As one of the largest veterinary conferences in the world, ACVIM receives resident research submissions from some of the best and brightest young minds in veterinary medicine.
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Aedes aegypti is a mosquito that can cause yellow fever.

Where Will the World’s Next Zika, West Nile or Dengue Virus Come From?

Posted by Trina Wood on January 04, 2019
After collecting data and comparing it with every known mammal and bird species on Earth, scientists from the University of California, Davis, have identified wildlife species that are the most likely to host flaviviruses such as Zika, West Nile, dengue and yellow fever. Flaviviruses are known to cause major epidemics and widespread illness and death throughout the world.
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UC Davis researchers led an effort to identify hundreds of genes linked to blindness in laboratory mice.

300 Blind Mice Uncover Genetic Causes of Eye Disease

Posted by Trina Wood on January 03, 2019
Hundreds of new genes linked to blindness and other vision disorders have been identified in a screen of mouse strains. Many of these genes are likely important in human eye vision and the results could help identify new causes of hereditary blindness in patients. The work is published Dec. 21 in Nature Communications Biology. The research team was led by Dr. Bret Moore, resident at the UC Davis Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital.
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