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Cover of UCSF Magazine: top reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2025”. Text below reads: "Evolution Revolution: Looking to the past to uncover the genetic roots of human disease." Painting depicts the evolution of man from ape to human, with figures from ape to man walking in a line. The first human is nude and holds a primitive tool; the next human is a female, early 20th-century nurse; next is a man in a doctor's coat, holding a model of a double-helix; next is a woman wears a virtual reality headset.

Cover of UCSF Magazine: top reads “UCSF Magazine, Summer 2025”. Text below reads: "The Plastic Within: What scientists are discovering about the plastic inside our bodies." Sculpture of the anatomical insides of a human body, made entirely out of pieces of colorful plastic.

Cover of UCSF Magazine: top reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2024”. Text below reads “The Road to Rejuvenation: Can science slow aging?” Illustration shows strips of a woman's face. From left to right, each strip shows that the woman has visibly aged.

Cover of UCSF Magazine: top reads “UCSF Magazine, Summer 2023”. Text below reads “Inside the Distressed Teen Brain: Rethinking treatment for adolescent depression”. Illustration of a teenager with images of cell phones, social media like icons, pills, basketball, leaves, and flowers flowing out of their head.

Cover of UCSF Magazine: top reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2023”. Text below reads “Could psychedelic therapy go mainstream?”. Illustration of a person laying down with waves of colorful, psychedelic mushrooms flowing around and over them.

Cover of UCSF Magazine: top reads “UCSF Magazine, Summer 2022”. Text below reads “A Touch of Nobel-ity: The prize-winning science illuminating heat, touch, pain, itch, and much, much more”. Illustration of a hand with various stimuli on it, including a fire, ice, mosquito, a feather, a snake, chile peppers, itch, pain, and a kiss.

Cover of UCSF Magazine: top reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2022”. Text below reads “Shelter from the Storm: Helping asylum-seekers escape persecution”. Illustration of a woman hugging a man; the man’s back has a face with a frown and closed eyes; barbed wire come from the sides and wrap around the man’s arms.

Cover of UCSF Magazine: top reads “UCSF Magazine, Summer 2021”. Closeup photo half of a woman’s face, with her eye closed. Text on her cheek reads “Sleep Science Awakens: Can our genes point the way toward a better night’s sleep?”

Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2021”. Illustration in background of a scientist overlooking converging planes of nanoproteins; one nanoprotein stands out in the background.

Cover of UCSF Magazine: Summer 2020. Illustration of health care worker in PPE covering head and face, with only the eyes seen through goggles; a coronavirus symbol is in the middle of the head covering; a labyrinth surrounds the person with coronavirus symbols; text reads “Combating Coronavirus.”

Cover of UCSF Magazine: in to left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2020”; bottom left corner reads “Special Issue, The Future”; illustration on cover: collage of a gloved hand with part robot hand, cells, needle, equations, and futuristic looking parts.

Cover of the Summer 2019 edition of UCSF Magazine: reads “Poison Control...the the rescue!”; comic book-style illustration of three people running through San Francisco; man in the is on the phone; there is a puddles, pills and pill bottle on the ground; Sutro tower shines in the background.

Cover of UCSF Magazine: top left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2019”; bottom right reads “Stopping violence in our communities: Mending the physical wounds is only the beginning”; illustration on cover: part of a gun is show in black over a red background; inside the trigger area is an eye on a blue background; the blue drips from the gun..

Cover of UCSF Magazine: top left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Summer 2018”; bottom right reads “Drug Odyssey: The epic journey to better medicines”; illustration on cover: a syringe and needle come from the left; a large dropplet shape comes out of the needle with lines and multi-colored dots within; at the bottom left there is a portion of a beaker; at the top and bottom right, colored amorphous cloud-like shapes drift in from the edges of the page.

Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2018”. Black background with a photo slit in half: the right half is a black and white portrait of a female scientist, the left half is a colorful cell image.

Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Summer 2017”. Photo of a man whose face is completely obstructed by a smoke cloud; in the smoke cloud it reads: “Dazed and Confused. Why is it so hard to study marijuana?”

Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Winter 2016”. Photo illustration of a map of the United States, made out of pills; most of the pills are white, with only a few black and red pills; Bottom left reads: “White Wash: Biomedical research doesn’t reflect the diversity of the American population”.

Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Summer 2016”. Photo of a teenage boy, smiling. Text next to photo reads: “Free to be Oliver”. Text below photo reads: “MS Breakthrough; Science Goes 3-D; The End of AIDS?”

Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Fall 2015”. Illustration of the silhouette of a man; behind him is a beautiful blue sky with fluffy clouds; inside his head is a stormy scene where the brain would be with a tree branching out from the brain area; white birds fly in to the storm. Text next to photo reads: “A New Way Out of Depression”. Text below photo reads: “Poverty’s Vexing Cycle; Kid-Size Dosing; When Disaster Strikes”

Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Spring 2015”. Microscopic image of a T cell. Text next to photo reads: “Cancer's Fierce New Foe: Deploying the T cell against melanoma”. Text below photo reads: “Mission Bay Hospitals!; Service Superstars; Research at Risk”

Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Fall 2014”. Photo of a man riding a motorbike on a busy street. Text next to photo reads: “Surgeons Hit the Road: Saving limbs and lives around the world”. Text below photo reads: “Rejuvenating the Brain; A San Francisco Scourge; Modern Nursing”

Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Spring 2014”. Illustration of a man made out of bacterium. Text next to photo reads: “Only UCSF 150: Birthplace of biotech, World-class university dedicated to health, Caring for San Francisco since 1864”. Text below photo reads: “Mining our Microbiome; Silver Citizen Care; Mentor-Protégé Power”

Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Fall 2013”. Illustration of circular data points with people representing data. Text next to photo reads: “The Promise of Emerges: Harnessing data to personalize care”. Text below photo reads: “Precision Medicine Special Issue”

Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Spring 2013”. Photo collage of scince images, people, and San Francisco landmarks. Text next to photo reads: “Nobel for Stem Cell: Prize for Yamanaka rockets program to new heights”. Text below photo reads: “Students who Serve; Power of Precision Medicine; Can Wellness Cure?”

Cover of UCSF Magazine: left corner reads “UCSF Magazine, Fall 2012”. Photo of a closeup shot of a human eye. Text next to photo reads: “By Our Own Devices: Inventions that are saving sight, breath – and lives”. Text below photo reads: “Beating Bone Cancer Odds; Alumni Leaders; Dementia: Cracking the Codes”

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