Archive: Therapy for Abnormal Heartbeats May Cause Brain Injury
A common treatment for irregular heartbeats known as catheter ablation may result in the formation of brain lesions when it is performed on the left side of the heart.
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Archive: New MRI Method Aids Long-term Concussion Prognosis
For concussion sufferers, physicians may now be able to predict early on who is more likely to continue experiencing symptoms months or years after the head-jarring event.
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Archive: E-Cigarettes Are Expanding Tobacco Product Use Among Youth
E-cigarettes – thought by some to be responsible for a decline in youth cigarette smoking – are actually attracting a new population of adolescents who might not otherwise have smoked tobacco products.
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Archive: Genetic Risk Factors for Autism, MS and Other Diseases Differ Between the Sexes
Study suggests, genetic variants that have distinct effects on physical traits in men versus women are also linked to men’s and women’s risk for a range of diseases – autism, multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes.
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Archive: Shape-Shifting Nucleosomes Open New Avenues for Epigenetics Research
UCSF study demonstrates that nucleosomes actively change their shape as part of the larger process of epigenetic regulation of gene expression.
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Archive: Successful Immunotherapy Requires System-Wide Immune Response
New research has found that successful cancer immunotherapy appears to depend on whether the treatment can trigger a system-wide immune response, rather than just a local response within the tumor itself.
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Archive: Binge Drinking May Quickly Lead to Liver Damage
Alcohol consumed during just seven weeks of intermittent binge drinking harms the liver in ways that more moderate daily drinking does not.
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Archive: New ‘Immunoprofiler’ Initiative will Advance Drug Discovery, Precision Immunotherapy for Cancer
UC San Francisco scientists have formed an innovative research alliance with three global pharmaceutical companies.
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Archive: Federal Funding in the New Administration and What It Could Mean at UCSF
Key members in the UCSF Science Policy and Strategy Group, as well as the Government Relations Office, discuss faculty concerns around decreased federal funding for biomedical research and advanced patient care, or the elimination of such funding altogether.
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Archive: Official Abortion Rate Declined in Texas After Law Restricted Access to Clinics, UCSF-UT Study Finds
In Texas, increases in travel distance to the nearest abortion clinic caused by clinic closures were closely associated with decreases in the official number of abortions.
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Archive: UCSF, Intel Join Forces to Develop Deep Learning Analytics for Health Care
UC San Francisco’s Center for Digital Health Innovation announced a collaboration with Intel Corporation to deploy and validate a deep learning analytics platform designed to improve care.
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Archive: Patients with Severe Mental Illnesses Slip Between Cracks in HIV Testing
People with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and major depression with psychosis may be up to 15 more likely than the general population to be HIV positive, but are only marginally more likely to be tested for the virus.
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Archive: Nursing Research Seeks to Bridge Breastfeeding Disparity for African American Moms
Ifeyinwa Asiodu, an assistant professor at the UCSF School of Nursing, is working to close the gap in breastfeeding rates between African-American babies and others in the U.S.
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Archive: Three-Parent Babies: The Science of Replacing Mitochondrial DNA and What Remains Unknown
Mitochondrial replacement therapy now has been used in humans to conceive a “three-parent baby” to prevent inherited mitochondrial disorders, but there remain questions about the effectiveness of the process.
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Archive: Science in Focus: Rebuilding the Salivary Gland After Radiation
UCSF researchers are working to figure out how mouse stem cells divide and differentiate into acinar cells to rebuild the salivary gland after an injury. Such research could apply to patients who often lose the ability to produce saliva after undergoing radiation therapy for head and neck cancers.
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Archive: Access to Free Drinking Water in SF Neighborhoods Driven by New Partnership
Over the next year, 19 new public water stations will be installed across San Francisco, thanks to a collaboration involving the City and County of San Francisco, community groups, and UCSF Health.
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Archive: Cultural Differences May Leave Their Mark on DNA
A UC San Francisco-led study has identified signatures of ethnicity in the genome that appear to reflect an ethnic group’s shared culture and environment, rather than its common genetic ancestry.
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Archive: UCSF, Pfizer Renew Research Collaboration, Citing Progress in Drug Discovery Research
UC San Francisco and Pfizer Inc.’s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation have renewed an agreement to identify and develop biologic compounds against both known and novel targets.
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Archive: Science in Focus: Using Light to Make Single Cells Self-Destruct
Researchers at UCSF have developed a new optogenetic tool that can be used to completely eliminate single cells from brain networks in animals. The researchers believe the new tool will enable exquisitely precise experiments to help researchers understand how each cell contributes to the whole.
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How Artificial Intelligence Techniques Are Bringing Efficiency to the Hunt for New Drugs
Steven Altschuler and Lani Wu are using artificial intelligence to spot and label potential medical uses for biological compounds.
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Archive: Alcohol Abuse Increases Risk of Heart Attack, Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure
Alcohol abuse may increase the risk for heart attack, atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure.
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Archive: Latino Children with Kidney Failure Have Superior Survival
Latino children with kidney failure have a surprising survival advantage over white children despite longer waits for transplants, according to a UCSF study that tracked more than 12,000 pediatric patients.
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Archive: Off-Switch for CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing System Discovered
UCSF researchers have discovered a way to switch off the widely used CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system using newly identified anti-CRISPR proteins that are produced by bacterial viruses.
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Archive: UCSF Discovery May Lead to New Treatments to Protect Fetus from Deadly Effects of Food Poisoning
A newly identified bacterial protein that is shown to jump-start infection may be the culprit in a foodborne disease that strikes pregnant women in disproportionately high numbers, leading to miscarriage and pre-term birth.
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Archive: Positive Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trial Results Support New Treatment Approach
In findings that show the effectiveness of a new strategy for treating multiple sclerosis, researchers are reporting positive results from three large, international, multicenter Phase III clinical trials of the investigational drug ocrelizumab in both relapsing multiple sclerosis and primary progressive multiple sclerosis.
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Archive: UCSF Joins Multi-University Collaboration Agreement with Facebook’s Building 8
UCSF is joining a unique collaboration agreement with Facebook that would allow its researchers to engage in joint technology projects without the usual red tape.
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Archive: Cutting Through the Clamor: How the Brain Helps Us Understand Spoken Words in Noisy Settings
UCSF scientists have discovered an unexpected mechanism the brain uses to seamlessly compensate when speech sounds are obscured by noise.
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Archive: CRISPR Study Reveals Unexpected Roles of Non-Coding RNAs
UCSF researchers have taken a major step toward understanding the function of the tens of thousands of human genes that do not code for proteins, a phenomenon considered one of the key remaining mysteries of the human genome.
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Archive: CRISPR-Based Single-Cell Genetics Platform Enables Rapid Analysis of Critical Gene Networks
Researchers from UC San Francisco and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a new method for performing high-throughput functional screening of complex genetic interactions.
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Archive: Scientific Reasons for Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions
To give you a bit of scientific motivation, UCSF gathered some of the latest research behind the most popular health-related New Year’s resolutions that attest to why it really is good for your body to see them through.