UCSF Rises in US News Global Universities Rankings for 2022
UCSF’s research has been ranked among the top in the world, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report’s Best Global Universities 2022 rankings.
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How Cells Multitask: The Magic of Molecular Switches
Researchers at UCSF’s Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) have observed how molecular switches regulate many different biological processes simultaneously. Their findings may shed light on how disease mutations operate, offering new ways to target malfunctioning switches and prevent illness.
Scientists Map Brain Circuit that Drives Activity in Fertile Females
A team of UCSF scientists have identified the specific neurons and signaling pathway that make sexually receptive females of many species more active at the time of ovulation.
UCSF Celebrates Its Newest Nobel Laureate David Julius
At 2 a.m., a text came that David Julius thought might be a prank. But it was a relative contacting him to say that the Nobel committee in Stockholm was trying to reach him.
David Julius Wins Nobel Prize for Work on Pain Sensation
David Julius, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Physiology and Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine at UC San Francisco, has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Biography of David Julius
David Julius, PhD is professor and chair of the Department of Physiology at UC San Francisco and holds the Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine.
Poison Frogs, Birds, Hold Clues to Antidotes for Deadly Toxins
A team of researchers at have uncovered some intriguing clues in the mystery of how some poison birds and frogs evade their own toxins.
Beyond CAR-T: New Frontiers in Living Cell Therapies
Taking a page from computer engineers, biologists are trying their hands at programming cells – by building DNA circuits to guide their protein-making machinery and behavior.
Microbiome Medicine: Scientists Harness the Body’s ‘Bugs’ to Treat Asthma, MS and More
Plenty of probiotic yogurts, pickles and kombuchas claim to boost our digestive health with armies of microbes, but some scientists have more ambitious therapeutic plans for the “bugs” that colonize us. They hope to leverage these microbes as living therapeutics for a range of health conditions, including ulcerative colitis, multiple sclerosis, eczema and asthma.
Mutation in Highly Infectious Alpha Variant May Help Coronavirus Evade Immune System
The B.1.1.7 coronavirus variant—also known as Alpha—may be more infectious because it contains mutations that make it better adapted to foil the innate immune system, at least for long enough to allow the virus to replicate and potentially find new hosts, according to a new study.
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.
The Case of the Recurring Fever
An elderly man had symptoms no one could explain – until Amy Berger, MD, PhD, and her team investigated.
Your Immune System Could Turn COVID-19 Deadly
Hidden autoimmunity may explain how the coronavirus wreaks such widespread and unpredictable harm.
