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    Smarter Drug Delivery with Tejal Desai, PhD

    <p>Swallowing pills means medication must face the challenge of surviving the harsh environment of the digestive tract. As a result, people must take larger doses than they need. Using micro and nano-fabrication techniques developed by the computer chip industry, Desai’s lab is creating tiny devices that take multiple drugs directly to where they are needed, using less medication, minimizing side effects and making the process safer for the patient.&nbsp;</p>

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    New Life for Damaged Nerves with Hubert Kim, MD, PhD

    <p>Each year, scores of soldiers wounded by explosives suffer from debilitating nerve injuries that render their arms and legs useless. Kim’s research, performed at the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco Veterans Affairs hospital, has led to development of artificial nerve grafts to accelerate healing of these injuries.</p>

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    Treating Disease Before Birth with Tippi MacKenzie, MD

    Stem cell transplantation may hold the promise to treating many diseases before birth such as sickle cell anemia and muscular dystrophy. But first, researchers need to overcome many barriers, including rejection of stem cell transplants by the fetus. MacKenzie’s lab recently discovered that mothers’ T cells are responsible for rejecting the grafts and that this rejection may be avoided by using stem cells from the mother.

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    Learning Lessons from an HIV Cure

    <p>For doctors confronting the AIDS epidemic, past ambitions always boiled down to two main goals: prevention, or finding ways to protect people not yet exposed to HIV, through vaccines, safe sex education or other means; and treatment, or discovering effective drugs and providing them to people with HIV/AIDS, helping them live longer.</p>

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    SFGH Grand Rounds Explores Disease That First Defined AIDS

    <p>Doctors and other health care professionals packed into San Francisco General Hospital’s Carr Auditorium for the June 7 medical grand rounds, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the first AIDS report to the US Centers of Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention.</p>

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    UCSF and AIDS: Facts and Firsts

    <p>For the past 30 years, UCSF has been a leader in AIDS basic and clinical research, patient care, policy development and community and global outreach, efforts that were among the first in the nation in response to the epidemic.&nbsp;</p>

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    UCSF Marks Three Decades of AIDS

    <p>As one of the preeminent biomedical education and health sciences research institutions in the world, UCSF emerged early as a pioneer in the fight against AIDS. Today, three decades later, UCSF is working on multiple fronts to prevent, treat and stop the spread of the disease that has killed 33 million people worldwide.</p>

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    UCSF Joins Caltech in Creative Problem Solving to Advance Health Care

    <p>Experts at UCSF and Caltech are pushing the boundaries of creative problem solving to address important clinical problems with the hope that the talent pool at both institutions, combined with an entrepreneurial spirit, will advance health care innovation.</p>

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    UCSF Scientists Play Key Role in Success of Yervoy, a New Cancer Drug

    <p>Yervoy, a new cancer drug that has been approved for the treatment of late-stage melanoma –&nbsp;and that is being used to treat other cancers in ongoing clinical trials –&nbsp;is based on a strategy for boosting the immune response developed and tested by scientists from UCSF and UC Berkeley.</p>

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    Men's and Women's Immune Systems Respond Differently to PTSD

    Men and women had starkly different immune system responses to chronic post-traumatic stress disorder, with men showing no response and women showing a strong response, in two studies by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco.

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    UCSF Team Shows How to Make Skinny Worms Fat and Fat Worms Skinny

    Researchers exploring human metabolism at UCSF have uncovered a handful of chemical compounds that regulate fat storage in worms, offering a new tool for understanding obesity and finding future treatments for diseases associated with obesity.

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    UCSF Team Views Genome As It Turns On and Off Inside Cells

    UCSF researchers have developed a new approach to decoding the vast information embedded in an organism’s genome, while shedding light on exactly how cells interpret their genetic material to create RNA messages and launch new processes in the cell.

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    UCSF Study Identifies Chemicals in Pregnant Women

    The bodies of virtually all U.S. pregnant women carry multiple chemicals, including some banned since the 1970s and others used in common products such as non-stick cookware, processed foods and personal care products, according to a new study from UCSF.

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    Preserving Oral Health for a Lifetime

    Susan Hyde, an award-winning professor and scientist with the UCSF School of Dentistry, promotes practices that preserve oral health and quality of life for both patients and practitioners.

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    New Imaging Advance Illuminates Immune Response in Breathing Lung

    In a recent UCSF-led study in mice, researchers developed a method to stabilize living lung tissue for imaging without disrupting the normal function of the organ. The method allowed the team to observe, for the first time, both the live interaction of living cells in the context of their environment and the unfolding of events in the immune response to lung injury.

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