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fundamental questions about life.
Featured News & Events
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Jodi Nunnari, professor of molecular and cellular biology, and collegues published research in the journal Developmental Cell about a new compound that blocks an early step in cell death that could lead to a novel class of drugs for treating heart attacks and stroke.
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Jonathan Eisen, professor of evolution and ecology at the UC Davis Genome Center, is named the new Academic Editor-in-Chief for PLoS Biology.
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New Waters Mass Spectrometry Facility opens within Dr. Julie Leary's laboratory, expanding infectious disease research capabilities at UC Davis.
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Stephen C. Kowalczykowski, professor of microbiology; Maria Spies, Ichiro Amitani, and Ronald J. Baskin have published a paper in Cell magazine
explaining that the DNA helicase RecBCD's translocation velocity
reduces when it reaches recombination hotspots known as Chi sites
because RecBCD changes which one of its two motor subunits is in the
lead.
