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Give to UCSFResearchers found that patients with a pediatric cancer who were protected under the ACA’s dependent coverage provision were more likely to remain on private insurance for longer durations compared to their older peers who turned 19 before the Act.
For a tiny embryo to develop into an adult organism, its cells must develop in precise patterns and interact with their neighbors in carefully orchestrated ways. To create complex tissues and organs –
A new study by University of California researchers shows the promise of high-throughput DNA-sequencing technologies to improve prenatal diagnosis and pregnancy outcomes for women who have experienced an abnormal prenatal ultrasound.
Risk for melanoma, the most deadly skin cancer, can be estimated long before detection of any suspicious moles, according to a UCSF scientist.
Most parents know or suspect when their child smokes, but they are much more likely to be in the dark if the child vapes or uses other tobacco products, according to a large national study by researchers at UCSF.
Though cancer immunotherapy has become a promising standard-of-care treatment – and in some cases, perhaps a cure – for a wide variety of different cancers, it doesn’t work for everyone, and researchers have increasingly turned their attention to understanding why.
Researchers at UCSF are tackling antibiotic resistance using a different approach: redesigning existing antibiotic molecules to evade a bacterium’s resistance mechanisms
Greater maternal stress during pregnancy is linked with significant increases in the number and variety of infant illness during the first year of life, independent of the level of stress after birth.
Researchers have figured out how to assemble genetic profiles of individual lung cancer cells obtained from patients at different times during the course of their treatment.
UCSF scientists now have evidence from research that women with Alzheimer’s live longer than men with the disease because they have genetic protection from the ravages of the disease.
Researchers at UCSF have developed a “digital biomarker” that would use a smartphone’s built-in camera to detect diabetes.