UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center has launched a Center for Experimental Therapeutics in Cancer to accelerate promising cancer therapies from the lab to the bedside. The idea is to advance precision medicine that leads to more effective, less toxic cancer therapies.
The Liver Health Foundation has honored Dr. David K. Imagawa, a leading expert in minimally invasive liver and pancreatic surgery at UCI Health, with its 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award. Imagawa received the award at the foundation’s “Salute to Excellence Dinner Gala” on Sept. 30 in recognition of his career of…
Shellfish is the leading cause of food allergy in the U.S. In this Q& A, Patrick Leung, professor of rheumatology, allergy and clinical immunology at UC Davis Health, answers questions on the latest advances in diagnosing and treating shellfish allergies.
Three babies have been born after receiving the world’s first spina bifida treatment combining surgery with stem cells. This was made possible by a landmark clinical trial at UC Davis Health known formally as the “CuRe Trial: Cellular Therapy for In Utero Repair of Myelomeningocele.”
The single-celled protozoan Euplotes eurystomus achieves a scurrying walk by coordinate its microscopic uses a simple, mechanical computer instead of a brain like most animals, UCSF researchers found.
UC San Diego Health is the first hospital system in the region to offer a novel treatment option for patients with prostate cancer that has spread throughout the body and has not responded to other therapeutics. In 2004, upon Jim Duvall’s completion of service in the U.S. Army, college and…
The National Center for Interventional Biophotonic Technologies hosted its inaugural symposium September 29 and 30, bringing together leading researchers from 13 institutions. The light-based technologies being developed have the potential to transform how diseases are diagnosed, managed, and treated.
Context shapes our perception of facial expressions during everyday social interactions. A recent UC Davis Health study identified where in the brain these neural computations take place and how, based on context, the different parts of the brain interact to determine facial perception.
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