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Justice Dept Settles with Philip Morris USA, R.J. Reynolds Over Tobacco Document Database
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UCSF Receives Award to Improve Safety of Blood Transfusions
<p>UCSF and its affiliate Blood Systems Research Institute have been awarded nearly $33 million in research contracts for four projects as part of a major new research initiative designed to improve the safety and effectiveness of blood transfusions in the United States and abroad.</p>
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Justice Dept Settles with Tobacco Cos on Database
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Gladstone Scientists Identify Human Proteins that May Fuel HIV/AIDS Transmission
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered new protein fragments in semen that enhance the ability of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, to infect new cells—a discovery that one day could help curb the global spread of this deadly pathogen.
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Reducing Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease
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Stem Cell and Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell and other Genetic Diseases
<p>A cure for sickle cell anemia and other life-threatening genetic disorders that arise in the blood is the goal of a new $6.7-million, five-year research project headed by UCSF scientist Y. W. Kan, a pioneer of modern genetics and the diagnosis of genetic diseases before birth.</p>
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UCSF to Receive Tobacco Papers, Funding to Improve Public Access to the Documents
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a proposed consent order today with a federal district court that tobacco companies provide $6.25 million to improve free public access to tobacco documents via the Internet. The court will provide this money to the UCSF Legacy Library for this purpose.
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UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann Featured on BioCentury This Week
<p>UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, former president for product development at Genentech, is featured in a video interview for BioCentury Publications Inc., a major biopharmaceutical news media source, which first aired online on Dec. 11.</p>
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Operation Christmas Cheer: Children's Health a Hurdle for Marina Family
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UCSF Shuttle Buses Now Have Seatbelts
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Best Test for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Dementia
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Cannabis and California's Physicians: A New Perspective
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Listening to Body Signals Aids Weight Loss
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Older Adults Get Cancer Screenings Against Recommendations
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UCSF Senior Vice Chancellor Gives Update on Shuttle Safety
<p>UCSF Senior Vice Chancellor Plotts updated the UCSF community on improvements made to enhance safety of the campus shuttle service since the death of professor Kevin Mack in an accident on July 14.</p>
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Many Elderly Screened for Cancer Despite Risks
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The Road to Recovery
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Benioffs Pitch In to Help Homeless S.F. Families
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UCSF's Blackburn Inducted into the California Hall of Fame
<p>UCSF Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, whose co-discovery of an enzyme involved in cell aging and cancers opened a whole new field of scientific inquiry, was inducted into the <a href="">California Hall of Fame</a> on Dec. 8, 2011. </p>
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"Landmark" in Gene Therapy Treatment
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Neighbors Rally to Aid Family of Novato Girl with Cancer
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Immunity Against the Cold
Throughout the interior spaces of humans and other warm-blooded creatures is a special type of tissue known as brown fat, which may hold the secret to diets and weight-loss programs of the future.
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Autism Boom: An Epidemic of Disease or of Discovery?
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Genentech's Elite Alumni
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Santa's Little Helpers
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Study May Lead to Better Understanding of Trauma-Related Stress
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Paying Attention to the Body Has Weight Loss-Pay Off
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UCSF Stem Cell Grant Could Mean Hope for Patients
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UCSF Celebrates National Mentoring Month 2012 in Honor of Late Kevin Mack
<p>The UCSF community will celebrate National Mentoring Month in January 2012 with a series of events in honor of the late UCSF professor Kevin Mack, a beloved mentor to both students and colleagues.</p>