An Estrogen Receptor that Promotes Cancer also Causes Drug Resistance
Researchers at UCSF have gained insight into how cancer cells proliferate despite a myriad of stresses.
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Faster Test Results Mean Better Outcomes For HIV Patients
Scientists at UCSF and Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda have developed an intervention that makes use of a portable laboratory testing technology to help HIV providers order, process, and receive HIV viral load results quickly, and shorten the time it takes for patients to get their results.
Beyond CAR-T: New Frontiers in Living Cell Therapies
Taking a page from computer engineers, biologists are trying their hands at programming cells – by building DNA circuits to guide their protein-making machinery and behavior.
Targeted Therapy for ‘Undruggable’ Lung Cancer Stems from Decades of UCSF Research
This long-delayed treatment milestone might not have happened at all without seminal accomplishments by UCSF chemist Kevan Shokat, who succeeded in revitalizing a holy-grail-like quest after almost all others had given up.
Next-Generation T-Cell Therapeutics Set Sights on Cancers, Autoimmune Disorders and More
T cells – immune cells that patrol our bodies in search of trouble – have become a central focus for UC San Francisco scientists working on living cell therapies, an approach that views cells
How Can We Thwart the Next Pandemic?
Leading scientists share some of the tools and strategies that could help us better confront and contain future outbreaks.
Sophie Dumont Delivers 2021 Byers Award Lecture: ‘Who Conducts the Symphony of Cell Division?’
Sophie Dumont, winner of the 2021 Byers Award for Basic Science, focuses on finding out how, as well whether therapeutic targets exist to ensure equal – and healthy – division of chromosomes.
Spread of Breast Cancer Linked to Newly Discovered RNA Splicing Mechanism
What kills most people who die from cancer is not the initial tumor. It’s the intolerable disease burden on the body that arises when tumor cells continually expand their numbers after spreading to different organs.
Novel Structure Found in Tumor Cells May Open Door to New Kinds of Cancer Therapies
UCSF researchers have figured out precisely what receptor tyrosine kinases are, how they form and their role in cancer.
Cancer Patients Lonely and Depressed During COVID-19 Pandemic
Loneliness and social isolation have been significant problems for the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic, but for cancer patients these issues were particularly acute, likely due to isolation and social distancing, according to a new UCSF study.
Smart Cell Therapies for Solid Cancers Ready to Move Toward Clinical Trials
Researchers at UCSF have demonstrated how to engineer smart immune cells that are effective against solid tumors, opening the door to treating a variety of cancers that have long been untouchable with immunotherapies.
