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Say What? Microaggressions, Your Health and What To Do About Them

Faculty members Chase Anderson, MD, and Brittany Bryant, LCSW, help us understand what microaggressions are, what they look like, and what they mean for your mental health – and practical skills to deal with them, whether they’re directed at you or not.

An illustration of a silhouette of a man and woman head with speech bubbles, indicating different thoughts and words amongst people.

New Technique to Identify Anti-Aging Molecules

As the human body ages, cellular changes can drive a host of age-related diseases and conditions. The appearance of aging cells, also called senescent cells, in age-related diseases has spurred the

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Survivors of Severe COVID Face Persistent Health Problems

A study reveals the life-altering impact of COVID-19 on individuals who developed severe illness, the majority of whom had to be placed on mechanical ventilators. Two-thirds still had physical, psychiatric, and cognitive problems for up to a year later.

Dr. Anil Makam examines a male patient with a stethoscope at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

UCSF Scientists Build a Molecular ‘GPS’ to Guide Cell Therapies

UCSF scientists have been awarded more than $30 million to develop “tissue GPS,” a new system using engineered T cells to guide therapies directly to their targets in the brain to treat neurological diseases like cancer, multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer’s.

A scientific image of T-cells attacking a glioblastoma (brain tumor).