Telomeres and the Remarkable Telomerase Enzyme
Telomeres — which are the DNA repeats that form the tips of chromosomes and are produced by the telomerase enzyme — play a crucial, and curious, role in the life of the cell.
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UK Official Points Out Barriers on Road to Gene-Based Medicine
Lord Naren Patel, who led the British government’s recent inquiry into the potential challenges and benefits of genomic medicine, discussed his findings at UCSF on Sept. 10.
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NYT cites UCSF cardiologist on cardiac-device limitations
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UCPD to Host Town Hall on Emergency Preparedness Today
Christopher Jones, director of emergency management at UCSF, will host the first in a series of emergency preparedness town hall meetings today (Sept. 15) at Rock Hall on the Mission Bay campus.
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Bloomberg News cites UCSF research on genetic testing for HER2
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AIArchitect profiles UCSF campus architect
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KQED Quest Radio features Chancellor, UCSF experts, on personalized medicine
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Organ Donation Advocates Share Stories, Work to Raise Awareness
As UCSF launches a 10-week campaign to promote organ donation, medical center staff and former patients reflect on their own life-changing transplant experiences.
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Yamanaka receives Lasker Award for stem cell research
Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, of the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease and Kyoto University, has won the 2009 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award for his discovery of a method of reprogramming adult skin cells to become embryonic-like stem cells. Yamanaka, who is the L.K. Whittier Investigator in Stem Cell Biology at Gladstone and professor of anatomy at UCSF, is one of the youngest recipients of the award, which is one of the highest scientific honors bestowed in the United States.
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UCSF researchers program cells to be remote-controlled by light
UCSF researchers have genetically encoded mouse cells to respond to light, creating cells that can be trained to follow a light beam or stop on command like microscopic robots.
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Federal Funding Gives Boost to Fellowship Program Aimed at Minority Postdocs
A joint UCSF-SFSU program for postdocs has received nearly $300,000 in economic stimulus funds, allowing administrators to extend four current fellowships and add one more.
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First stem cell clinical trial for treating brain's "communication highway" to begin
UCSF researchers are set to begin a Phase I clinical trial in collaboration with StemCells, Inc. to test the safety and preliminary effectiveness of using neural stem cells to treat children with a rare, fatal form of a brain disorder known as Pelizaeus-Merzbacher disease (PMD). Currently, there are no effective treatments for the fatal forms of the disease, which affects males that inherit a single defective gene.
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KCBS radio features UCSF dentist on oral health in a tight economy
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UCSF stem cell building milestone to be celebrated with "topping-off" ceremony
UCSF leaders, a patient advocate who is a member of the board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and construction workers will gather for a “topping off” ceremony to celebrate the placement of the last structural steel beam on the building that will be the headquarters for The Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF.
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Prusiner lab prion discovery featured in New York Times
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Dental School to Cut About 20 Percent from State-Funded Budget
The UCSF School of Dentistry is projecting a 20 percent cut in state funding or more than $2.6 million of almost $14 million in state funding, according to Dean John Featherstone.
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Lowell Lo joins Department of Internal Medicine
New UCSF Faculty, September 2009
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UCSF-led Cycling Team Raises $80,000 to Fund AIDS Research
A 13-member team has raised $80,000 that will help UCSF’s AIDS Research Institute fund cutting-edge, early-stage research.
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Jeffrey H. Janian joins Department of Preventive & Restorative Dental Sciences
New UCSF Faculty, September 2009
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Campus to Close During Winter Holidays as Part of Furlough Plan
The campus will close from December 24 through January 3, 2010, as part of the UC-mandated furlough plan.
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Mary Premenko-Lanier joins Department of Medicine
New UCSF Faculty, September 2009
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Laura Plantinga joins Department of Medicine
New UCSF Faculty, September 2009
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Prions found in feces of deer asymptomatic for chronic wasting disease
Scientists have discovered that deer asymptomatic for a fatal brain condition known as chronic wasting disease excrete the infectious prions that cause the disease in their feces. The finding, they say, suggests a plausible explanation for transmission of the disease among deer and, possibly, elk and moose in the environment.
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Somnath Mookherjee joins Department of Medicine
New UCSF Faculty, September 2009
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Experts to Share Insight into Cuban Health Care System
As United States legislators discuss health care reform, two UCSF experts will offer insights into one public health care system that they think works on September 17.
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Researchers restore missing protein in rare genetic brain disorder
UCSF researchers have successfully used protease inhibitors to restore to normal levels a key protein involved in early brain development. Reduced levels of that protein have been shown to cause the rare brain disorder lissencephaly, which is characterized by brain malformations, seizures, severe mental retardation and very early death in human infants.
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Experts Gather at UCSF to Discuss Overhauling Health Care
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi reaffirmed her belief in a public option to “lower costs, improve quality, expand coverage and retain choice” in health care coverage at a summit at UCSF on Sept. 2.
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Researchers Probe Links Between Modern Humans and Neanderthals
Scientists are using old bones to completely map the DNA of Neanderthals. Comparisons may shed light on what makes our own species unique.
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NPR hosts environmental health expert on toxic chemicals
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UC Employees Make Honorary Degrees Their Mission
Zina Mirsky, associate dean of administration in the UCSF School of Nursing, is among those credited for leading the cause of Japanese-Americans, who were forced into internment camps in 1942, to earn honorary UC degrees. Read the full story on the <a href="http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/21748">University of California website</a>.