Archive: Smoking E-Cigarettes Daily Doubles Risk of Heart Attacks
Daily use of electronic cigarettes is associated with nearly a doubling of the odds of a heart attack.
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Archive: Cognitive Benefits of 'Young Blood' Linked to Brain Protein in Mice
Loss of an enzyme that modifies gene activity to promote brain regeneration may be partly responsible for age-related cognitive decline, according to new research in laboratory mice by UCSF.
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Archive: Cancer-Killing Virus Acts by Alerting Immune System
A new UCSF study has shown that a cancer-killing (“oncolytic”) virus currently in clinical trials may function as a cancer vaccine.
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Archive: Marijuana Should Be Packaged, Regulated Following Tobacco Control Best Practices
California should take an assertive approach to cannabis labeling, packaging and product formulation, according to a new UCSF study.
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Archive: Current PSA Monitoring Ignores Risk to Some Prostate Cancer Survivors
In older men who survived low-risk cancer and have limited life expectancy, frequent PSA screenings may do more harm than good
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Archive: Wearables Could Catch Heart Problems That Elude Your Doctor
Office visits offer doctors only a snapshot of chronic conditions. That’s where new mobile health-tracking technology can make a real difference, providing detailed and long-term health data for each patient.
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Archive: Apalutamide Delays Progression of Nonmetastatic, Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer
Treatment with an investigational androgen receptor inhibitor significantly delayed the development of metastasis in patients with prostate cancer that had become resistant to standard androgen-deprivation therapy.
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Archive: Creation of New Brain Cells May Be Limited, Mouse Study Shows
Many researchers have long assumed that most stem cells in the body can produce new cells indefinitely, but new research at UCSF shows that this is not the case in the brain.
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Archive: New Evidence Shows Potential of Two Drugs to Block Malaria Transmission
An international team of researchers has shown that two different compounds, can safely and effectively be added to treatment regimens to block transmission of the most common form of malaria in Africa.
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Archive: Despite Bans, Toxic Flame Retardants Continue to Show Up in Pregnant Women’s Blood
A UCSF research team has found that while banning flame-retardant chemicals initially led to a reduction in exposure, a disturbing trend is emerging of exposure leveling off or even rising again.
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Archive: A Brain Chemical Blamed for Mental Decline in Old Age Could Hold Key to Its Reversal
UCSF researchers have identified the buildup of one brain chemical as a key culprit behind age-related learning and memory impairments. Tuning levels of this chemical in the worm C. elegans, they could delay and even reverse the declines of old age.
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Archive: Study Points to Immune System’s Role in Neural Development
A new study shows that an immune signal named interleukin 33 plays a crucial role in allowing the brain to maintain the optimal number of synapses during the development of the central nervous system.
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Archive: 'Anxiety Cells' Identified in the Brain
For the first time, neuroscientists have identified “anxiety” cells deep inside the brain.
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Archive: Uniquely Human DNA Sequences Control Brain Development
Stretches of DNA that make us uniquely human are partly responsible for controlling neuron growth, according to new research from the Gladstone Institutes and UCSF.
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Archive: Could a Protein Called Klotho Block Dementia and Aging?
Denal Dubal, an associate professor of neurology at UCSF, thinks we can use the science of aging to help stave off these neurodegenerative diseases.
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Archive: Researchers Invent Reversible 'Off-Switch' for Cellular Proteins
UCSF scientists have invented a technique that lets them precisely and reversibly disrupt the action of specific cellular proteins at a microscopic scale by making them split apart when illuminated with blue light.
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Archive: Diabetes Makes Bones Less Bendable, More Prone to Fracture
Type 2 diabetes is known to be a risk factor for bone fractures – but exactly how diabetes makes bones more fragile has been unclear.
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Archive: New Approach Attacks 'Undruggable' Cancers from the Outside In
Researchers at UCSF have found a way to attack one of the most common drivers of lung, colorectal, and pancreatic cancer by targeting the proteins it produces on the outside of the cell.
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Archive: Cavity Prevention Approach Effectively Reduces Tooth Decay
A scientifically based approach that includes a tooth-decay risk assessment, aggressive preventive measures and conservative restorations can dramatically reduce decay in community dental practices.
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Archive: Researchers Identify Biomarker for Diabetes Risk in People with Obesity
UCSF researchers have discovered a new biological pathway in fat cells that could explain why some people with obesity are at high risk for metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes.
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Archive: San Francisco Cancer Initiative Identifies 1st Year Progress, Challenges
SF CAN is targeting the five most common cancers which collectively account for half of all new cancers in San Francisco.
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Archive: How Doctors are Providing Smarter Care with Electronic Health Records
More and more, the promise of EHRs transforming data into knowledge is beginning to bear fruit.
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Archive: Brain-Cell ‘Antenna’ May be Key to Understanding Obesity
UCSF researchers have discovered that the brain’s ability to regulate body weight depends on a novel form of signaling in the brain’s “hunger circuit” via antenna-like structures on neurons called primary cilia.
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Archive: Monthly Brain Cycles Predict Seizures in Patients with Epilepsy
UCSF neurologists have discovered monthly cycles of brain activity linked to seizures in patients with epilepsy.
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Archive: Brain’s Immune System May Be Key to Better Treatments for Psychiatric Disorders
Anna Molofsky is researching how synapses pruning and formation occur normally during brain development in the hope of determining how subtle shifts in balance lead to neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Archive: Youth Using Alternative Tobacco Products Are More Likely to Smoke 1 Year Later
Nonsmoking adolescents who use e-cigarettes, smokeless tobacco or tobacco water pipes are more likely to start smoking conventional cigarettes within a year, according to new research by UCSF.
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Archive: Engineers Hack Cell Biology to Create 3-D Shapes from Living Tissue
UCSF bioengineers have shown that many of the complex folded shapes that form mammalian body plans and internal tissue structures can be recreated with very simple instructions.
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Archive: Social Interactions Override Genetics When Birds Learn New Songs
UCSF research finds that although young male songbirds are genetically predisposed to sound like their fathers, enriched early experience with a foster-father can overcome this genetic destiny.
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Carry the One Radio: “The Hidden Addiction”
Sugar scientist and professor of health policy Laura Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH, explores the tactics corporations use to get people hooked on sugary products – and how she and her colleagues are fighting back. Carry the One Radio is produced by a dedicated band of young UCSF scientists, graduate students, and postdocs.
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Brainy Bridge
Neuroscientist Ashley Smart shares the wonders of the brain through art.
