Archive: DNA Found Outside Genes Plays Largely Unknown, Potentially Vital Roles
A new UCSF study highlights the potential importance of the vast majority of human DNA that lies outside of genes within the cell.
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Archive: Researchers Discover How Fruit Flies Know to Mate with Their Own Species
A UCSF-led team has discovered a sensory system in the foreleg of the male fruit fly that answers a central problem in evolution that is poorly understood: how animals of one species know not to mate with animals of other species.
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Archive: High-Resolution Mapping Technique Uncovers Underlying Circuit Architecture of the Brain
Using an innovative brain-tracing technique, scientists have found a way to untangle the complex connections that influence specific brain functions.
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Archive: Simple Two-Drug Combination Proves Effective in Reducing Risk of Stroke
Results of a Phase III clinical trial showed that a simple drug regimen of two anti-clotting drugs lowered the risk of stroke by almost one-third, compared to aspirin alone, when given to patients who had minor or transient stroke symptoms to prevent subsequent attacks.
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Archive: Is Obesity A Disease?
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Archive: Researchers Extol Virtues of Team Science in Quest for HIV Cure
Two veteran UCSF doctors who have been battling the AIDS epidemic for decades retraced past efforts and described their ongoing quest for a cure for HIV in the Academic Senate’s Third Annual Faculty Research Lecture.
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Archive: Scientists Find Missing Gene Is Key to More Serious Type of Multiple Sclerosis
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Archive: Absence of Gene Leads to Earlier, More Severe Case of Multiple Sclerosis
A UCSF-led research team has identified the likely genetic mechanism that causes some patients with multiple sclerosis to quickly progress to a debilitating stage of the disease while other patients progress much more slowly.
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Archive: Genes Involved in Birth Defects May Also Lead to Mental Illness
Gene mutations that lead to major birth defects may also cause subtle disruptions in the brain that contribute to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, autism and bipolar disorder, according to new research by UCSF scientists.
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Archive: Alcohol Addiction Relapse Might Be Thwarted By Turning Off Brain Trigger
Researchers at the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center at UCSF have been able to identify and deactivate a brain pathway linked to memories that cause alcohol cravings in rats.
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Archive: Multiple Sclerosis Huge Hurdle for Youths
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Archive: UCSF Steps Forward to Lead Advances in Precision Medicine
UCSF convened 170 of the world’s foremost thinkers, creators and innovators last month at the OME Precision Medicine Summit to identify new approaches and spur action to make medicine more predictive, preventive and precise.
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Archive: Aspirin May Fight Cancer by Slowing DNA Damage
Aspirin is known to lower risk for some cancers, and a new UCSF-led study points to a possible explanation, with the discovery that aspirin slows the accumulation of DNA mutations in abnormal cells in at least one pre-cancerous condition.
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Archive: Vision Loss from Retinal Tears Can Be Prevented
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Archive: Men With Prostate Cancer Should Eat Healthy Vegetable Fats
Men with prostate cancer may significantly improve their survival chances with a simple change in their diet, a new UCSF-led study has found.
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Archive: Alzheimer’s and Low Blood Sugar in Diabetes May Trigger a Vicious Cycle
A new UCSF-led study looks at the close link between diabetes and dementia, which can create a vicious cycle.
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Archive: Less Than 6 Hours of Sleep Ups a Woman's Heart Attack Risk
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Archive: Women With Heart Disease May Face Inflammation Risks From Bad Sleep -- But Not Men, Study Finds
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Archive: Fewer than Six Hours of Sleep a Night and Waking Too Early 'Increases Heart Disease in Women'
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Archive: Poor Sleep Linked to Worsening of Heart Disease in Women
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Archive: Sleep Study Finds Important Gender Differences Among Heart Patients
A new UCSF study finds that poor sleep – particularly waking too early – appears to play a significant role in raising unhealthy levels of inflammation among women with coronary heart disease.
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Archive: ER Patients Unlock Vital Info to Treating Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
Cutting-edge research led in part by UCSF's Carolyn Calfee, MD, is opening the door to the possibility of diagnosing and treating Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome before it becomes life-threatening.
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Archive: Novel Research Program Dares Scientists to Dig Deeper, Defy Status Quo
UCSF’s Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research “dares our scientists to dig deeper, ask tougher questions, and invent novel ideas and approaches that defy the status quo."
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Trial Buster
Pharmacologist Lisa Bero, PhD, answers our questions about industry bias in clincial trials.
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Archive: Childhood ADHD Linked to Obesity in Adulthood
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Archive: UCSF Scientists Use Human Stem Cells to Generate Immune System in Mice
Raising hopes for cell-based therapies, UCSF researchers have created the first functioning human thymus tissue from embryonic stem cells in the laboratory.
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Nobel Prize Rockets Stem Cell Program to New Heights
Shinya Yamanaka's Nobel Prize for stem cell research brought fresh attention to something UCSF long ago sensed and seized: the promise of regeneration medicine for repairing or replacing damaged cells, tissues, and even whole organs.
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Archive: UCSF AIDS Walk Teams to Go for the Gold Again
UC San Francisco, a frequent high-performing team at AIDS Walk San Francisco, will again for the gold – the honor given to the top fundraising organizations participating in the annual event.
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Archive: Human Brain Cells Developed in Lab, Grow in Mice
A key type of human brain cell developed in the laboratory grows seamlessly when transplanted into the brains of mice, UCSF researchers have found.
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Archive: Epilepsy Cured in Mice Using Brain Cells
Epilepsy that does not respond to drugs can be halted in adult mice by transplanting a specific type of cell into the brain, UCSF researchers have discovered, raising hope that a similar treatment might work in severe forms of human epilepsy.