Archive: Physical Activity Dropped Worldwide During COVID-19, Raising Concerns for Health
The declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic in March resulted in a rapid decrease in step counts worldwide.
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Archive: COVID-19 Relies on Cell’s ‘Master Regulators’ for Survival
UCSF scientists assembled an international research team that has figured out how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, hijacks proteins in host cells that serve as master regulators of key cellular processes.
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Archive: LGBTQ+ Populations Experience Newfound Anxiety and Depression in COVID-19 Pandemic
LGBTQ+ communities have experienced increased anxiety and depression since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those who haven’t struggled with these conditions before.
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Archive: Living With COVID-19 When It Won't Go Away
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Archive: What Is Pooled Testing? How Lessons from the HIV Epidemic Could Help Fight the Coronavirus
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Archive: Newly Diagnosed COVID-19 Patients Needed for Antibiotic Clinical Trial
The nationwide clinical trial will assess whether the common antibiotic azithromycin can reduce hospitalization stays and death caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
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Archive: Dementia May Develop 7 Years Earlier for Adults with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Older adults with chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract may develop dementia more than seven years earlier than those without the condition.
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Archive: People With Inflammatory Bowel Disease Might Be at Higher Risk for Dementia, Study Finds
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Archive: Recombinant Antibody Network Partners with Bristol Myers Squibb to Develop Novel Therapies
Under a new agreement, Celgene will further invest in the RAN’s state-of-the-art antibody engineering program to expand target discovery from oncology and immunology to include neurology.
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Archive: UCSF, St. Jude Identify Key Culprit Driving Treatment Resistance in Deadly Immune Disorder
The finding could offer additional insights into other immune conditions, including a type of childhood leukemia and the severe inflammation response in some children with COVID-19.
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Archive: Rare, Super Coronavirus Antibodies Likely to Yield Vaccine, Say Stanford, UCSF Experts
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Archive: Disrupted Circadian Rhythms Linked to Later Parkinson's Diagnosis
Older men who have a weak or irregular circadian rhythm guiding their daily cycles of rest and activity are more likely to later develop Parkinson’s disease, according to a new study by scientists at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences who analyzed 11 years of data for nearly 3,000 independently living older men.
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Archive: Pregnant Women with Fatty Liver Disease Face Worse Outcomes
Pregnant women with the metabolic condition known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease have more than four times the risk of serious adverse maternal-fetal outcomes.
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Archive: Autism Tests Gauge Traits Equally Well in Girls and Boys
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Archive: 3D Facial Scans Could Speed Diagnoses for Children with Rare Genetic Diseases
Scientists have developed a prototype tool based on 3D facial imaging that could shorten years undergoing medical tests and waiting for a diagnosis for rare genetic diseases.
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Archive: Tumors Disrupt the Immune System Throughout the Body
Depending on a cancer’s tissue of origin, tumors cause widespread and variable disruption of the immune system throughout the body, not just at the primary tumor site.
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Archive: Infectious Disease Specialists Call for an End to Tear Gas During COVID-19 Pandemic
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Archive: Role of Expectation in What We See Is Stronger Than Previously Thought, Study Finds
In a new study in mice, UCSF researchers investigated what enables neurons in the visual system to respond to context when a stimulus is not available. They found that feedback from higher-order visual centers in the brain has much more influence over our fundamental visual processing than scientists had ever realized.
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Archive: UCSF Cancer Researchers Present New Advances at ASCO 2020
Cancer specialists from UCSF will present new research findings at the annual scientific program of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the world’s largest clinical cancer research meeting.
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Archive: Out-of-Sync Brain Waves May Underlie Learning Deficit Linked to Schizophrenia
A new UCSF study in mice has pinpointed a specific pattern of brain waves that underlies the ability to let go of old, irrelevant learned associations to make way for new updates.
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Archive: When Hard Data are ‘Heartbreaking’: Testing Blitz in San Francisco Shows COVID-19 Struck Mostly Low-Wage Workers
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Archive: How a Key Protein Juggles Multiple Demands to Keep Neurons Firing
UCSF researchers have become to the first to solve the structure of a hard-working protein that helps reload neurons for repeated firing.
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Archive: When Teen Boys Use Supplements
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Archive: Ketogenic Diets Alter Gut Microbiome in Humans, Mice
Ketogenic diets have a dramatic impact on the microbes residing in the human gut, collectively referred to as the microbiome, according to a new UCSF study.
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Archive: Coronavirus May Change Patient Appointments to Videoconference Permanently
A new study from UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals suggests that for some hospitals, video visits may become a permanent feature of the patient-provider landscape.
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Archive: Smoking Nearly Doubles the Rate of COVID-19 Progression
Smoking significantly worsens COVID-19, according to a new analysis by UCSF of the association between smoking and progression of the infectious disease.
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Archive: The Disappointing Truth About Antibody Testing
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Archive: Resilience to ALS Due to Synaptic Safety Mechanism
UCSF researchers have identified a powerful self-corrective mechanism within synapses that is activated by neurodegeneration and acts to slow down disease progression in animal models of ALS.
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Archive: Respiratory Infections May Drive Puerto Rico’s High Asthma Burden
New research confirmed the higher rates of early life respiratory infections among Puerto Ricans.
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Archive: Flipping A Genetic Switch on Cells Lets Researchers Boost or Suppress Immune Responses
Cancer and autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, might not seem to have much in common, but some researchers now are pinning hopes on the same immune system cell –