The Road to Rejuvenation
Fortified stem cells. Enhanced memory. A longevity hormone. UCSF researchers are finding out whether we can cancel – or at least delay – old age.
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Eczema and Asthma Share a Link. Can it Lead to New Treatments?
A collaboration is between two biomedical researchers bridges the laboratory and clinic to advance the science of itch, allergy and asthma.
Can a Leading Laboratory Unlock the Cause of Gastrointestinal Disease?
Faranak Fattahi’s lab is a national leader in growing stem cells to model peripheral nerves, focusing on gastrointestinal diseases.
Why Stem Cell Therapy Might Not Work for Older Patients
Leanne Jones, PhD, is at the forefront of studying how stem cells are influenced by their surrounding environment and directed to differentiate into one type of cell or another – research that’s critical for stem cell therapies to be successful.
What We Were Taught About RNA in High School is Only Half the Picture
Vissers’ work on RNA tags helped found the field of epitranscriptomics, the study of how chemical marks on RNA, rather than their sequence alone, dictate the function of the molecules.
Can Lab-Grown Beta Cells Revolutionize Diabetes Care?
Sneddon is trying to coax stem cells into reliably developing functional beta cells that can then be transplanted into patients with diabetes so that they can produce their own insulin.
Engineered Cells Successfully Treat Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Disease
Scientists at UCSF have shown that gene-edited cellular therapeutics can be used to successfully treat cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases in mice.
Cellular Transplant Therapy Pioneered by UCSF Reverses Sea Lion’s Epilepsy
Cronutt was one sick sea lion before undergoing a groundbreaking surgery last fall. Today he's seizure-free and doing well.
‘Invisible’ Stem Cells Evade Natural Killer Cells Using Immune ‘Off-Switch’
UCSF scientists have discovered a new way to control the immune system’s “natural killer” cells, a finding with implications for novel cell therapies and tissue implants that can evade immune rejection.
Astonishing Animals That Illuminate Human Health
Giant lizards with superpowered hearts. Hairless rodents that don’t seem to age. Songbirds that babble like human babies. These and other scurrying, soaring, and slithering wonders are teaching scientists how our own bodies work – and how to fix them.
Engineered Developmental Signals Could Illuminate Regenerative Medicine
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 –
Clues to Brain Development and Disease Emerge from 3D Epigenome Study
UCSF researchers are finding new clues to how neuropsychiatric disorders unfold by focusing on the role of a little-studied form of DNA in early brain development.
Inhalable Treatment Enhances Regeneration in Lung Fibrosis Model
A new study highlights the potential of a novel, inhalable regenerative therapy for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus
UCSF researchers are taking a closer look at COVID-19’s dizzying array of symptoms to get at the disease’s root causes.
COVID-19 Frontliners: the Stem Cell Biologist
Why are more men than women dying of COVID-19? Scientist Faranak Fattahi, PhD, has found a clue.
