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Gene Mutation May Explain Why Some Don’t Get Sick from COVID-19
A common mutation can help people infected with the COVID-19 virus avoid developing any symptoms.
How a Rare Dementia Transforms Patients Into Artists
A rare burst of visual creativity is seen occasionally in patients with frontotemporal dementia. A UCSF-led study offers new insights into how this talent develops as key areas of the brain degenerate.
UCSF to Study Alzheimer’s Genetics in North American Asians
UCSF is helping to create the first large group of Asian American study participants to help improve Alzheimer’s disease care for the Asian community North America.
Could What Makes Multiple Sclerosis Worse Lead to a Cure?
A large, collaborative study on multiple sclerosis (MS) severity found that a single gene variant is predictive of much faster neurodegeneration in MS patients.
Brains and Braggadocio
As part of its miniseries on Black excellence in STEM, Carry the One Radio interviewed UCSF’s Akinyemi Oni-Orisan, PharmD, PhD. The assistant professor of clinical pharmacy shares how he’s improving cardiovascular care for everyone and how he inspires confidence in himself and his students. Find it on your favorite podcast forum.
Calling All Scientists to Fight the Next Pandemic
UCSF’s Nevan Krogan, PhD, is taking aim at the world’s deadliest diseases by uniting scientists and the biomedical industry to speed treatments.
You’ll Soon Be Able to Get a Blood Test for Alzheimer’s. Will You Want One?
The advent of cheap, easy-to-use blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease has the potential to revolutionize diagnosis and treatment. But they also raise difficult questions that the field is only beginning to consider.
The Cancer Breakthrough Boom
Engineered immune cells. Supercharged scans. Drug implants. Gene manipulators. Blood biopsies. Read how these breakthroughs are transforming cancer care.
Can Neuroscience Help Stem the Tide of Teen Depression?
A new treatment approach draws on research into the unique teenage brain.
Two New Vaccines Join the Fight to Eradicate Polio
Two new oral polio vaccines will help limit the amount of new polio strains and outbreaks by genetically engineering weakened polio virus in the oral vaccine to reduce reversion to dangerous forms.
Can this Medication Reverse MS? Brain Biomarker Shows It Can
UCSF researchers developed an approach to measure an over-the-counter allergy medication’s effectiveness in repairing brain damage from multiple sclerosis (MS), making it possible to also assess future therapies for the disorder.
