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Science Winter 2023

Trip Therapy

Could psychedelics become mainstream medicines?

Insights & Advice

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Mythbuster Winter 2023

How Much Can We Control Our Own Fertility?

Here’s what the science says.
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Ask the Expert Winter 2023

Mission: A Tobacco-Free World

How tobacco marketing researcher Pamela Ling is helping beat the industry at its own game.
Illustration of a mother hugging a child in a colorful heat map.

Ask the Expert Winter 2023

How Can We Help Kids Cope with Anxiety about Climate Change?

Advice for parents whose children are feeling betrayed, uncertain, and disempowered.
Illustration of a life preserver floating on the surface of calm waters; below the surface the water is murky and filled with “toxic” items like a microwave, perfume bottle, and house cleaner.

Mythbuster Summer 2022

Detoxing: Can You Buy Your Way to Better Health?

Find out whether there are smarter ways to spend your time and money.

Combating Coronavirus

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Science Winter 2022

An All-Out Quest to Understand Long COVID

A concerted research effort gave UCSF scientists early insight into long COVID. It also showed patients that they weren’t in the fight alone.
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Science Summer 2021

Your Immune System Could Turn COVID-19 Deadly

Could hidden autoimmunity explain why the disease makes some people deathly sick but not others?
Illustration of a person using a handheld nebulizer inhaler; SARS-CoV-2 cells are floating in the background and bubble surround some of their ACE2 receptors.

Science Winter 2021

Two Billion Nanobodies. One Global Pandemic. Go.

A UCSF team has engineered a tiny antibody capable of neutralizing the coronavirus.
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Perspectives Summer 2020

How I Survived COVID-19

Writer F.T. Kola recounts her battle with COVID-19 and its aftermath.
Illustration of three people in a row; two hold umbrellas and one does not; COVID symbols rain down from clouds, hitting the person not holding an umbrella.

Ask the Expert Winter 2021

How Can We Be Sure the New COVID-19 Vaccines Are Safe?

We asked several UCSF experts for a personal take on what will convince them that a vaccine is safe.
Vida Ahyong, Joe DeRisi, and Emily Crawford in face masks, lab coats, and gloves.

Human Interest Summer 2020

How to Build a COVID Testing Lab in Eight Days

As the nation’s testing regime floundered, one research team sprang into action.

 

Alumni Stories

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  • Alumni Stories
  • Winter 2023

A Strong Force for Good

Not hurricanes. Not earthquakes. Nothing stops Ruth Arnold Smarinsky, PharmD ’83, from speeding medicines to the world’s worst disaster areas.

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