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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.
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Archive: K Scholar Team Science Awardees Bring Family Planning Care to Liver Transplant Recipients
The team behind a K Scholar Team Science Award designed a pilot study to shine light on fertility after liver transplant and the subsequent need for improved family planning counseling.
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Archive: Hormone Made Our Ancestors Warm-Blooded but Left Us Susceptible to Heart Damage
After a heart attack, the heart tissue is often irreparably damaged. According to UCSF study, the issue may date back to our earliest mammalian ancestors.
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Archive: ‘Undruggable’ Parkinson’s Molecule Spills Its Secrets
UCSF researchers developed a strategy for targeting a key molecule implicated in Parkinson’s disease, opening up a potential new treatment strategy for the currently incurable movement disorder.
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Archive: The Irreplaceable Role of Mom-and-Pop Spaces for Aging Adults
Ethnographer Stacy Torres, PhD, is shedding a unique light on how we think about social ties and social relationships among older people.
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Archive: Not Just Neurons: Precision Signaling Architecture Discovered in Non-Neural Cells that Direct Development
UCSF lab found that a chemical that acts as a neurotransmitter in the nervous system is essential for cytonemes to mediate cell-to-cell communication between non-neural cells.
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UCSF Is Top Public Recipient of NIH Funds
It was the 12th year in a row that UCSF claimed the top spot among public institutions, and the eighth straight year in which the University ranked second overall among institutions nationwide.
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Archive: UCSF’s Top NIH-Funded Projects of 2018
More than a thousand projects across the University received federal funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2018, totaling more than $647.8 million.
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Archive: Samsung's Galaxy Watch Is Supposed to Measure Blood Pressure – But How Accurate Will It Be?
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Archive: Google Translates Doctor’s Orders into Spanish and Chinese with Few Significant Errors
Researchers at UCSF say Google Translate is trustworthy when translating written medical advice, but there are some caveats.
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Archive: Could Blockchain Ensure Integrity of Clinical Trial Data?
UCSF researchers have created a proof-of-concept method for ensuring the integrity of clinical trials data with blockchain.
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Archive: Cellular Sickness Linked to Type 1 Diabetes Onset
A UCSF study of human and mouse pancreatic tissue suggests a new origin story for type 1 diabetes.
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Archive: CRISPR Gene Editing Makes Stem Cells ‘Invisible’ to Immune System
UCSF scientists have used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system to create the first pluripotent stem cells that are functionally “invisible” to the immune system.
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Most Triggers for Irregular Heartbeat Can Be Easily Modified
A personal survey of patients with AF has found that the majority of triggers for the condition are easily modifiable lifestyle choices, including alcohol, caffeine, exercise and lack of sleep.
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Archive: Chimpanzee Brain Organoids Hint at Secrets of Human Evolution
UCSF researchers created a chimpanzee brain “organoids” that mimic the development and organization of full-size brains.
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Archive: ‘Virtual Pharmacology’ Advance Tackles Universe of Unknown Drugs
Scientists at UCSF, in collaboration with colleagues at UNC, have developed the world’s largest virtual pharmacology platform and shown it is capable of identifying extremely powerful new drugs.
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Archive: Functional Insulin-Producing Cells Grown In Lab
UCSF researchers have for the first time transformed human stem cells into mature insulin-producing cells, a major breakthrough in the effort to develop a cure for type 1 (T1) diabetes.
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Archive: Common Pain Reliever Can Improve Survival in Head and Neck Cancer
Regular use of a common type of medication, such as aspirin and ibuprofen, significantly improves survival for a third or more patients with head and neck cancer, a new study led by UCSF has found.
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Archive: $26 Million ‘Grand Challenge’ Project Will Probe Role of Inflammation in Cancer
UCSF's Thea Tlsty is a winner of the “Grand Challenge” competition sponsored by Cancer Research UK. Her international team will receive $26 million to uncover how chronic inflammation causes cancer.
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Archive: Liver Transplants Double for Alcohol-Related Liver Disease
A study showed ongoing regional geographic variations in liver transplant rates for ALD patients, whose long-term survival rate is slightly lower than other liver transplant patients.
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Archive: Drug Hobbles Deadly Liver Cancer by Stifling Protein Production
In laboratory experiments, UCSF researchers successfully beat back the growth of aggressive liver cancers using a surprising new approach.
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Archive: Life-Threatening Lung Disease Averted in Experimental Models
UCSF discovery that may lead to new treatments for people with IPF.
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Archive: Ultra-Sturdy Bones, with a Surprising Origin, Suggest New Osteoporosis Approach
A handful of brain cells deep in the brain may play a surprising role in controlling women’s bone density.
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Archive: Calcium Specks May Help Detect Heart Disease in South Asians
Specks of calcium in the heart’s artery walls could be an important prognostic marker of early cardiovascular disease in South Asians and may help guide treatment in this population.
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Archive: Radiation Dose in CT Scans Varies Due to Scanners’ Technical Settings
The amount of radiation that patients are exposed to from CT scans varies widely between institutions and countries, and is largely due to differences in the technical settings of the scanning machines.