The human body may seem like a single, self-contained system, but it actually hosts trillions of microscopic organisms. These ...

Despite existing in the food safety danger zone, the living human body does not go bad. Like in a tower defense game, our body is picking off invaders on multiple fronts at all times. The mitochondria ...

The From Labs to Lives Blog connects everyday topics with UC Davis research. Each post is reviewed by our experts, ensuring you always get useful information you can trust. Because we can’t see them, ...

Many aspects of our world, from the body mass of creatures in the animal kingdom to the population of cities across the globe, follow an intriguing mathematical pattern. Known as Zipf's law, the rule ...

In a proof-of-concept study funded by the National Institutes of Health, researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have shown that an ...