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This weekly podcast features conversations with UCSF luminaries on breaking research ranging from sleep genetics to screen time for kids to COVID surges.
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Can You Buy Your Way to Better Health with Detoxing?
Companies claim there’s bad stuff in our homes and bodies, and we should pay to purge it. What’s worth worrying over?
Preparing for a Post-Roe America
What happens once abortion is illegal in half the country?
The Nobel-Winning Discoveries Illuminating How We Sense the World
How David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian found the molecules in our bodies that sense heat, cold, touch, and pain – and transformed sensory neuroscience.
UCSF’s Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD, on “The Psychedelic Therapy Podcast”
Explore the power of psychedelic therapy to treat the ailing human mind with international expert Carhart-Harris, who joined UCSF in 2021 as the Metzner Distinguished Professor and director of the new Neuroscape Psychedelics Division. Discover what his comparison of psilocybin with an antidepressant revealed on the Aug. 19 episode.
Wildhood: The Astounding Connections between Human and Animal Adolescents
Does your rambunctious teen seem like an animal? You may be on to something. Harvard evolutionary biologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD ’87, and science writer Kathryn Bowers reveal startling similarities between humans and animals in young adulthood.
Can This Controversial New Drug Curb Alzheimer’s Disease?
UCSF neurologist Gil Rabinovici, MD, explains the controversy and shares why he thinks Alzheimer’s care is entering a new era “regardless of whether aducanumab proves to be a blockbuster or a bust.”
Five Questions for Monica Gandhi
Monica Gandhi, MD, MPH, an infectious disease expert and professor of medicine, has been an ardent voice for science during the coronavirus pandemic.
Surprise! It’s a Nobel Prize
UCSF’s David Julius won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on pain sensation. “It was really a shock,” he says.
Speaking Again, With a Little Help from AI
How neuroscientists harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to give a paralyzed man back his voice.
An All-Out Quest to Understand Long COVID
A concerted research effort gave UCSF scientists early insight into long COVID. It also showed patients that they weren’t in the fight alone.
“Science is Fun!”
Can dieting help you live longer? Do microbes control your immune system? Can studying snakes help stop the next pandemic? UCSF microbiologist Peter Turnbaugh, PhD, interviews famous scientists and rising stars about research quests that span the spectrum of health.
TED Talk: “Can We Create Vaccines that Mutate and Spread?”
The viruses that cause polio and COVID-19 mutate, but treatments for the diseases don’t. For over 20 years, UCSF and Gladstone Institutes scientist Leor Weinberger, PhD, has been thinking of ways to make vaccines work more efficiently by being adaptive, rather than static.
Infiltrating Healthcare: How Marketing Works Underground to Influence Nurses
UCSF School of Nursing alum Quinn Grundy, PhD ’15, RN, shines a light on how sales reps from pharmaceutical and other health care companies skirt scrutiny, and get their products used in hospitals and doctors’ offices, by forging relationships with nurses.
The Case of the Recurring Fever
An elderly man had symptoms no one could explain – until Amy Berger, MD, PhD, and her team investigated.
