University of California San Francisco

Give to UCSF
Advanced
16068 Results in the UCSF News Center
Type of Article
Areas of Focus
Date of Publication
Health And Science Topics
Campus Topics

Dangerous Beauty

Cell biologist and engineer Matthew Kutys, PhD, and his team harness organoids – living tissues derived from patient tumors – to study how cancer spreads.

Microscopy image of human breast cancer tissue

The Wonderful World of 3D+

How a suite of advanced 3D technologies is ushering in surgery’s most sophisticated era yet.

3d printed model of a heart, split into two pieces, floating in front of a pink background.

A Prescription for Loneliness

What a tiny grassroots program in the Tenderloin is teaching doctors about healing through human connection.

Painted illustration of an older man sitting on a staircase, his head leaning down, with shadows of trees in the background.

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.

Photo realistic collage illustration of an older man, fractured with cut out shapes and half a face of an older version of himself.

How Proteins Interact May Hold Key to Future Autism Treatments

A new collaborative approach has begun revealing, in detail, how a set of around 100 autism spectrum disorder genes may lead to serious developmental problems. The technique involves looking beyond genes and their mutations, to the proteins they code for.

Microscope image of a brain organoid derived from human stem cells that contain a mutation associated with autism spectrum disorder.