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Archive: Not ‘Brains in a Dish’: Cerebral Organoids Flunk Comparison to Developing Nervous System
Widely used organoid models fail to replicate even basic features of brain development and organization, much less the complex circuitry needed to model complex brain diseases or normal cognition.
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Archive: Simple Test Identifies Patients at High Risk for Future Dialysis or Transplant
A low-cost test that screens for excess protein in the urine has been shown to accurately identify patients at higher risk for progressive kidney disease after being hospitalized for acute kidney
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Archive: The simple design change that could help doctors prevent opioid addiction
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Human Nature: How Will CRISPR Change our Relationship with Nature?
How will the gene-editing tool CRISPR change our relationship with nature? Will it affect human evolution? This documentary explores these questions through interviews with the pioneering scientists who discovered CRISPR, the families whose lives are altered by this new technology, and the bioengineers who are testing it. UCSF alumna Sarah Goodwin, who earned her PhD in cell biology, is the leading science adviser on the film, as well as a producer.
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Archive: Opioid Prescriptions Affected by Computer Settings
Researchers found that when default settings, showing a preset number of opioid pills, were modified downward, physicians prescribed fewer pills. Fewer pills could improve prescription practices and protect patients from developing opioid addictions.
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Archive: UCSF Releases Report on Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Testing Protocols
Scientists from UCSF, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have concluded an independent review of the appropriateness of the radiation testing protocols used by the California Department of Public Health and the U.S. Navy to assess radiation contamination at the Hunters Point Shipyard.
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Archive: 6 Questions for Keith Yamamoto on Preciscion Medicine at UCSF
In this interview, Keith Yamamoto, PhD, Director of UCSF Precision Medicine, explains why UCSF is considered a leader in the field and describes the "machine" created to fuel new insights and innovation.
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Archive: ‘Living Fossil’ May Upend Basic Tenet of Evolutionary Theory
UCSF–led research team has discovered the first conclusive evidence that natural selection may also occur at the level of the epigenome and has done so for tens of millions of years.
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Ageless Muscles, Lab-Made Organs, and Other “Better” Parts
Scientists at UCSF are exploring how we can improve our bodies – now and in the future – with science that sounds like sci-fi.
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Archive: What Would It Take to End Homelessness?
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Archive: Five Years After Abortion, Nearly All Women Say It Was the Right Decision, Study Finds
Five years after having an abortion, over 95 percent of the women in a landmark UCSF study said it was the right decision for them.
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Archive: Speech-Disrupting Brain Disease Reflects Patients’ Native Tongue
English and Italian speakers with dementia-related language impairment experience distinct kinds of speech and reading difficulties based on features of their native languages.
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Archive: Lifestyle Choices Could Slow Familial Frontotemporal Dementia
A physically and mentally active lifestyle confers resilience to frontotemporal dementia, even in people whose genetic profile makes the eventual development of the disease virtually inevitable.
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Archive: Study Finds Talcum Powder Not Likely A Risk For Ovarian Cancer
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Archive: Juul Hits Deliver More Nicotine Than Cigarettes, Study Finds
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Archive: How a Study of Horseshoe Crabs Led to Safer Joint Replacements
The breakthroughs came as Jack Levin was trying to find out if the cells normally circulating in the horseshoe crab’s blood, called amebocytes, triggered clotting, as platelets do in human blood.
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Archive: JUUL Delivers Substantially More Nicotine than Previous Generation E-Cigs and Cigarettes
JUUL delivers substantially more nicotine to the blood per puff than cigarettes or previous-generation e-cigarettes and impairs blood vessel function comparable to cigarette smoke
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Archive: Young Women Still May Be Getting Unnecessary Pelvic Exams
Pelvic examinations and cervical cancer screenings are no longer recommended for most females under age 21, but a new study has found that millions of young women are unnecessarily undergoing the tests.
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Archive: Bay Area doctors target health consequences of childhood trauma
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Archive: Brain Organoids Reveal Glioblastoma Origins
UCSF postdoctoral researcher for the first time succeeded in keeping a diverse array of glioblastomas alive in the lab using brain organoids
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Aging Is Not Optional. Or Is It?
With the global population of seniors projected to reach 1.5 billion by 2050, it will be more important than ever to reduce the burden of age-related disease. In the future, science will allow us to intervene in the aging process to make this a reality, according to geriatrician John Newman.
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How Scientists Might Tame Cancer
Basic scientist Zena Werb, who has studied cancer cells in UCSF labs for more than four decades, shares her take on the future of cancer medicine.
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The End of Infertility Is in Sight
Advances in medicine and public health have dramatically extended the lifespan of hearts, lungs, and other vital organs. But for women, the ovaries remain a stubborn exception. That may soon change, says fertility expert Marcelle Cedars.
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Can Technology Mend Our Broken Minds
Scientists have documented the influence of information overload on attention, perception, memory, decision-making, and emotional regulation. But the same technologies contributing to the cognition crisis could help solve it, argues neuroscientist Adam Gazzaley.
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Archive: Study Might Point Alzheimer's Research in Whole New Direction
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Who Will Benefit From Precision Medicine?
A future in which precision medicine benefits everyone is not guaranteed. For that to happen, UCSF experts argue, the health care industry must first tackle today’s health disparities, including differences in disease outcomes and access to care based on race, gender, and socioeconomic status.
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Archive: Alzheimer ‘Tau’ Protein Far Surpasses Amyloid in Predicting Toll on Brain Tissue
Brain imaging of pathological tau-protein reliably predicts the location of future brain atrophy in Alzheimer’s patients a year or more in advance.
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Archive: Pharmacies Leave Customers Hanging When It Comes to Disposing of Antibiotics and Opioids
A survey found that fewer than half of California pharmacies provided antibiotics and opioids disposal instructions meeting U.S. FDA guidelines, and just 10 percent followed the FDA’s preferred recommendation to take back unused medications from their customers.
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Archive: Mothers, Babies Overlooked in the Drug Crisis