The common fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, may seem like nothing more than a nuisance when your fruit gets too ripe, but medical research owes a great deal to this tiny little menace. Here are 15 ...

The From Labs to Lives Blog provides clear, accessible explainers on everyday topics for which UC Davis has expertise. Each post is reviewed by faculty or subject-matter experts, ensuring readers get ...

In Mendelian inheritance patterns, you receive one version of a gene, called an allele, from each parent. These alleles can be dominant or recessive. Non-Mendelian genetics don’t completely follow ...

Working with a diverse panel of rice accessions grown in field conditions, this valuable study measures changes in transcript abundance, tests for patterns of selection on gene expression, and maps ...

This course will provide an overview of clinical genetics with emphasis on current issues. Areas covered will include prenatal genetics, genetic screening, quantitative genetics, genetic syndromes and ...

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The flightless bird went extinct 700 years ago. The reconstructed DNA of a New Zealand bird that went extinct about 700 years ago could change what we know about lost species and increase the ...

The transmission of pathogens from wild animals to humans is called “zoonotic spillover”. Most human infectious diseases (60-75%) are derived from pathogens that originally circulated in non-human ...

Sam Freis’s work examines the phenotypic and genetic relationship between executive functions and other cognitive processes. She elucidates how these relate to self-regulation and psychopathology.

DNA is the chemical that codes for proteins which determine our physical traits. This molecule is a double coil connected by cross pieces (called bases). There are four bases that can vary in sequence ...