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Archive: Bolinas COVID-19 Testing Effort Detects No Active Infections
A community-led project to provide comprehensive COVID-19 testing to residents, essential workers, and first responders in the town of Bolinas has determined that all of the 1,845 nasal and oral swab tests conducted in the community between April 20 and April 24 were negative for active infection with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19.
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Archive: Old Drugs May Find a New Purpose: Fighting the Coronavirus
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Archive: Nature Publication Presents New ‘Blueprint’ Revealing How SARS-CoV-2 Virus Hijacks Human Cells
An international team of more than 120 scientists has detailed the impact of 75 over-the-counter prescription and development-stage drug compounds on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
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Archive: Testing the Tests: COVID-19 Antibody Assays Scrutinized for Accuracy by UCSF, UC Berkeley Researchers
A project launched by UC San Francisco and UC Berkeley scientists evaluated some of the more than 120 available antibody test kits.
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Archive: Has Coronavirus Been in California Since the Fall? Researchers Investigate
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Archive: Coronavirus Antibody Tests: Can You Trust the Results?
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Archive: Two Drugs Studied in Bay Area Could Lessen Coronavirus Deaths, Hospitalizations
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Archive: The Promise and Uncertainties of Antibody Testing for Coronavirus
As people around the world try to envision recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, much attention has been paid to antibody testing as a way to identify people who have developed immunity to the virus. UCSF experts explain how antibody testing works, who it can be most useful for and why we should be cautious.
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Archive: COVID-19 Arrived in Seattle. Where It Went From There Stunned the Scientists.
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Archive: What We Know, and Don't Know, A Month into Bay Area's Coronavirus Shelter-in-Place Order
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Archive: CRISPR and Spit Might Be Keys to Faster, Cheaper, Easier Tests for the Coronavirus
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Archive: Clinical Trial Testing If Common Anti-Inflammatory Drug Reduces Hospitalization, Death Caused by Coronavirus
UCSF is recruiting newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients for a large global clinical trial testing whether the common anti-inflammatory drug colchicine can reduce hospitalization and death caused by the illness.
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Archive: CRISPR-Based ‘Discovery Engine’ for New Cell Therapies to Advance Cancer Treatments
UCSF researchers now have reported a new method to design and test cell therapies, one they expect will speed the development of new life-saving treatments not only for cancer, but for other diseases, too.
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Archive: Is Herd Immunity a Solution to the Coronavirus Pandemic?
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Archive: New CRISPR-Based COVID-19 Test Kit Can Diagnose Infection in Less Than an Hour
While the widely used coronavirus PCR tests take about four hours to produce a result from a respiratory sample, the new DETECTR test developed by UCSF scientists takes only 45 minutes, rapidly accelerating the pace of diagnosis.
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Archive: Air Pollution and Smoking May Increase Coronavirus Risks, Worsen Outcomes
Lung damage is the cause of most COVID-19 deaths, and lung damage also is a public health concern for smokers and anybody living under polluted skies.
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Archive: Could a Blood Test for Coronavirus Antibodies Get California Back to Normal? Lots of Questions Remain
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Archive: New Research Links Air Pollution to Higher Coronavirus Death Rates
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Archive: New UCSF Health Atlas Visualizes Population Health, COVID-19 Cases
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Archive: Big Guns Fighting the Coronavirus
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Archive: As Mask Shortages Loom, Nationwide Team Assembles Best Practices for Decontamination and Reuse
To provide officials with a set of best practices for mask decontamination, a nationwide team has launched N95decon.org, a website that distills a broad range of relevant scientific literature.
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Archive: UCSF Remains Top Public Recipient of NIH Funding for 13th Straight Year
UCSF was awarded nearly 1,300 NIH grants and contracts, amounting to more than $684.4 million in funding.
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Archive: New COVID-19 ‘Citizen Science’ Initiative Lets Any Adult with a Smartphone Help to Fight Coronavirus
The online study would try to help researchers gain insight into how the virus is spreading and identify ways to predict and reduce the number of new infections.
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Archive: 8 strains of the coronavirus are circling the globe. Here's what clues they're giving scientists
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Archive: Unveiling How Coronavirus Hijacks Our Cells to Help Rush New Drugs to Patients
Though many hopes are hanging on the development of a vaccine or drug that targets the novel coronavirus directly, a UCSF-led team is taking an unconventional approach: target the host – in other words, you.
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Archive: The man behind the sequencing of the coronavirus could have keys to the disease
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Archive: Scientists Identify 69 Drugs to Test Against the Coronavirus
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Archive: Hundreds of Scientists Scramble to Find a Coronavirus Treatment
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Archive: Donors Rally to Support UCSF Doctors and Scientists Working to Conquer COVID-19
Thousands of UCSF health care workers are mobilizing to prepare for the potential influx of patients sickened by COVID-19, even as hundreds of UCSF scientists race against time to defeat the deadly respiratory virus impacting communities around the world.