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fundamental questions about life.
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Neelima R. Sinha, professor of plant biology, and her research group discovered that parasitic dodder vines take up RNA molecules from the host plant’s vascular system (phloem) — and could be manipulated to kill the parasite. The article will be published in New Phytologist.-
Gabrielle Nevitt, professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior, co-authored an albatross study that was featured on the cover of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).-
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, was named the new Academic Editor-in-Chief for PLoS Biology.
