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Liver samples that spent two months in the International Space Station will be studied to observe how microgravity ages liver cells and impacts their ability to regenerate. Understanding how aging damages the liver – and ways to potentially reverse that damage – could pave the way for better prevention and treatment of liver disease.
Energy expended for hospital and clinic electricity, climate control and ventilation is by far the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in radiotherapy, a treatment used in more than half of cancer cases.
Leading cancer researchers from UC San Francisco presented talks about advances in targeted therapy, cancer genomics, eliminating treatment disparities and other cancer research topics at this year’s
UCSF doctors are leading a national movement to protect patients and the environment from anesthesia-related pollution.
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.
Cell biologist and engineer Matthew Kutys, PhD, and his team harness organoids – living tissues derived from patient tumors – to study how cancer spreads.
UCSF and UC San Diego scientists are beginning to uncover the long-term public health impacts of recurring environmental hazards such as flooding, wildfires or extreme heat.
UCSF researchers found that regular screening is not always sufficient to prevent an advanced breast cancer diagnosis.
Breast cancer was the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in women, after skin cancer – accounting for 31% of all new female cancer diagnoses in 2022. Yet, determining who is most at risk of breast