Sleeping Really Strange Hours? Maybe a Rogue Gene is to Blame
The earliest-rising morning larks and the most extreme night owls may have a reason to blame genes — sometimes just one gene -- for their being out of sync with the rest of us.
University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFThe earliest-rising morning larks and the most extreme night owls may have a reason to blame genes — sometimes just one gene -- for their being out of sync with the rest of us.
Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH, says that researchers should more closely scrutinize the cultural origins of attitudes toward food, weight and body image when studying obesity in Latino children.
A study led by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill has identified several new compounds that could play a role in preventing or treating Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative conditions of the nervous system.
In this May 2006 interview, Siegel explains the shifting landscape of the autism "debate."
A question long debated among Alzheimer's disease researchers has been definitively answered by scientists at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease in San Francisco.
Sleeping pill sales have increased dramatically in the past year — in part due to hundreds of millions of dollars spent on direct advertising to consumers.
A new light-adjustable intraocular lens is showing promise for clearer vision for cataract patients, according to results from early clinical trials.
A new study suggests a sperm's life cycle is shorter than previously believed.
Using the technique known as X-ray crystallography, scientists have created the highest-resolution of a lipoprotein particle to date.
Researchers for the first time have created a three-dimensional image of apolipoprotein E, a protein long associated with cardiovascular disease and more recently with Alzheimer's disease, as it appears when it is bound to fat-like substances known as lipids.
Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco have determined that there is a strong relationship between being obese and developing end-stage renal disease, or kidney failure.
Researchers have determined that there is a strong relationship between being obese and developing end-stage renal disease, or kidney failure.
New results "support the idea that oxidative stress contributes to aging" in the brain.
New research from the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease details exactly how a mutant form of the protein apolipoprotein E, also known as apoE, is a causative factor for Alzheimer's disease.