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This incisive look at the fast-growing egg-donation industry follows donors whose bodies help create families yet often go unseen. Through international fieldwork, author Diane Tober, PhD — a UCSF-affiliated medical anthropologist — reveals how hope, profit, and uneven care collide in a system where reproductive technology can turn human eggs, and their providers, into commodities.
At the new Weill Cancer Hub West, Kole Roybal, PhD, is reimagining how immune cells fight solid tumors.
The mouth is a powerful lens on overall health and disease. Researchers are uncovering its wide-ranging roles — from early cancer detection to its microbiome’s surprising influence on immunity and pregnancy.
A UCSF study is revealing why South Asians develop heart disease even at healthy weights. It’s also changing how doctors screen for it.
New UCSF research reveals that Child-Parent Psychotherapy repairs a biological process that could benefit kids for life.
UCSF engineers are growing tiny, organ-like structures from human cells. The technology could change how we test new drugs — and how we heal our bodies.
The hormone’s role in women’s health reaches far beyond reproduction.
Learn about the evolving conversation around hormone therapy.
Researchers and clinicians are advancing the science of sight to ensure the health of these complex and crucial organs.
What scientists are learning about weed’s health effects might come as a surprise.
An expert in cognitive neuroscience shares the ways that music may help flex our neurons, plus her top tips for a music-filled life.
Neuroscientist Grae Davis, PhD, unpacks why public understanding of science matters.
UCSF researchers are scouring millions of compounds – with help from tiny zebrafish – to create anesthetics safe enough to use without an anesthesiologist.
Microplastics have infiltrated our bodies. What does that mean for our health?
Scientists at UCSF are studying the gastrointestinal tract to unlock the healing secrets of our trillions of gut microbes.
One key is a building designed by scientists for scientists, says Catherine Lucey, MD, UCSF’s executive vice chancellor and provost.
A digital twin of a human mind? It isn’t science fiction.
Insights from human evolution could change how we understand and treat illness.
UCSF scientists made international headlines when they developed a brain-computer interface that allowed a stroke survivor to speak for the first time in 18 years. Find this award-winning video, which has been viewed by millions, on UCSF’s YouTube channel.
In labs and clinics across UCSF, scientists are unraveling how to keep one of our hardest-working organs beating away.
Perpetual stress runs us down. But a truly restorative state that alters our bodies at the cellular level can counter this deterioration.
Deep rest is best achieved in prolonged practices that relax the body and quiet the mind. But you can also combat stress within seconds by activating your parasympathetic nervous system. Here are a few approaches to making this biological shift quickly.
Our genome may one day serve as a passport guiding our health care – from cradle to grave.
A world of science is examining the centerpiece of our respiratory system.
Cell biologist and engineer Matthew Kutys, PhD, and his team harness organoids – living tissues derived from patient tumors – to study how cancer spreads.
UCSF’s industry archives expose the marketing tactics that fueled the opioid epidemic.
What a tiny grassroots program in the Tenderloin is teaching doctors about healing through human connection.
Fortified stem cells. Enhanced memory. A longevity hormone. UCSF researchers are finding out whether we can cancel – or at least delay – old age.
UCSF infectious disease specialist Michael Peluso, MD, who co-leads one of the world’s oldest studies of long COVID, discusses the condition’s mysteries.
UCSF’s Nevan Krogan, PhD, is taking aim at the world’s deadliest diseases by uniting scientists and the biomedical industry to speed treatments.
