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Archive: Synthetic Speech Generated from Brain Recordings
The technology could one day restore the voices of people who have lost the ability to speak due to paralysis and other forms of neurological damage.
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Archive: Scientists Turn Brain Signals Into Speech, May Help People Who Cannot Talk
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Archive: What Does It Mean to Spell Check Your Genetic Code?
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Archive: 23andMe gene test might falsely reassure some people of breast cancer risk: Study
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Archive: ‘Super-Hero’ Stem Cells Survive Radiation to Regrow Muscles
Muscle damage is a common side effect of radiation therapy for cancer treatment, and is made worse because the very stem cells responsible for repairing injured muscles typically bear the brunt of
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Archive: Treating Excess of One Hormone Shows Promise for Decreasing the Risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Two UCSF surgeons set out to study the role a hormone plays in obesity and stumbled on a surprising finding.
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Archive: Don’t Count on 23andMe to Detect Most Breast Cancer Risks, Study Warns
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Archive: Study: School-Based Health Centers Effective in Changing Eating Habits, Fighting Obesity
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Archive: ‘Lovely,’ ‘Pleasant’ and ‘Scientific’ – Medical School Evaluations Differ by Gender and Minority Status
In the largest analysis to date of narrative medical school evaluations, researchers at UC San Francisco and Brown University have found significant differences in how female and underrepresented
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Archive: Is artificial intelligence intelligent? How machine learning has developed.
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Archive: Living Transplant Donors Need Long-Term Monitoring, Too
While organ transplant recipients receive continual care as the end-stage treatment to their condition, attention also should be given to living donors, who can suffer from hypertension, diabetes and
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Archive: Cancer-Killing Combination Therapies Unveiled with New Drug-Screening Tool
UC San Francisco scientists have designed a large-scale screen that efficiently identifies drugs that are potent cancer-killers when combined, but only weakly effective when used alone. Using this
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Archive: Many Nurse Practitioners Cannot Provide Medications to Treat Opioid Addiction
At least six states with high opioid abuse rates also have strong work restrictions that hinder nurse practitioners in prescribing medication that can help treat the problem.
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Archive: Nurse Practitioners Often Restricted From Prescribing Opioid Treatments
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Archive: Cancer Exports Molecular ‘Saboteurs’ to Remotely Disarm Immune System
Immunotherapy drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer treatment: many patients with malignancies that until recently would have been considered untreatable are experiencing
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Archive: Cancer’s Trick for Dodging the Immune System
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Archive: Brain Scans Spot, Track Alzheimer's
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Archive: One Day There May Be a Drug to Turbocharge the Brain. Who Should Get It?
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Archive: Alzheimer’s Diagnosis, Management Improved by Brain Scans
A first-of-its-kind national study has found that a form of brain imaging that detects Alzheimer’s-related “plaques” significantly influenced clinical management of patients with mild cognitive
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Archive: Brain Booster in a Bottle? Don't Bother
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Archive: Taste for danger
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Archive: Alcohol, caffeine are common triggers of irregular heart rhythm
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Archive: Had Enough Water? Brain's Thirst Centers Make a Gut Check
New UCSF study may have answered how your brain knows when you’ve had enough water.
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Archive: Blech! Brain Science Explains Why You're Not Thirsty For Salt Water
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Archive: Inside an Effort to Use Data-Crunching to Reduce Preterm Births
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Archive: Can Short-Term Stress Make the Body and Mind More Resilient? A New Study is Testing That Theory
UCSF scientists are testing how brief periods of controlled stress could protect the body from long-term stress.
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Archive: Soft Drink Companies Copy Tobacco Playbook to Lure Young Users
Tobacco conglomerates that used colors, flavors and marketing techniques to entice children as future smokers transferred these same strategies to sweetened beverages when they bought food and drinks companies.
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Archive: Skin Repair Reduces ‘Inflamm-Aging’ Factors Linked to Chronic Disease
Properly caring for the skin with a moisturizing cream may lower inflammation levels and potentially prevent age-related diseases, according to a new clinical pilot study.
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Archive: UCSF Fellow Tackles an Urgent Threat to Women's Health in Kenya
Chemtai Mungo, MD, MPH, is committed to tackling the public health effects of gender inequality and helping to improve cervical cancer screening in Kenya.