Better Way to Deliver Fetal Therapy for Serious Genetic Disorders
Delivering medicine through amniotic fluid is as effective as delivering it to the fetal brain via cerebrospinal fluid to treat serious disordrs such as Angelman syndrome.
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Targeted Treatment of Rare Childhood Leukemia
Juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML) is a rare but aggressive childhood leukemia. While hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is curative for some patients, approximately half of all patients see
Can AI Help Doctors Find Cancer Faster by Reviewing Records?
Artificial intelligence could potentially help extract liver tumor data at a much faster and accurate rate, setting possibilities for improved liver cancer care.
Could We Assess Autism in Children With a Simple Eye Reflex Test?
UCSF scientists may have discovered a new way to test for autism by measuring how children’s eyes move when they turn their heads.
Think Smoking Cannabis Won’t Damage Your Heart? Think Again
Daily cannabis smokers have a 25% increased risk of heart attack and a 42% increased risk of stroke compared to non-users.
I’m a Microplastics Researcher. Here’s How To Limit Their Dangers
Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, offers insights on what her research on microplastics has led her to change how she and her family eats and what cleaning products she uses.
First Tissue Bank May Help Solve Mystery of Long COVID Misery
UCSF will launch the world’s first tissue bank with samples donated by patients with long COVID.
How AI Can Help Spot Early Risk Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease
UCSF scientists found a way to predict Alzheimer’s disease up to seven years before symptoms appear by analyzing patient records with machine learning. Conditions that most influenced prediction of Alzheimer’s were high cholesterol and, for women, osteoporosis.
UCSF Tops Public Universities in NIH Research Funding in 2023
UCSF is a leading recipient of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for research, with a focus on advancing health sciences and medicine.
To Appreciate Music, the Human Brain Listens and Learns to Predict
Rather than simply hearing a string of notes, the brain is assessing them for patterns and predicting which notes will be next.
