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Alcohol Abuse Increases Risk of Heart Attack, Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure
Alcohol abuse may increase the risk for heart attack, atrial fibrillation and congestive heart failure.
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Watch: Mysteries of pregnancy revealed in 3-D imaging by UCSF research team
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UCSF Mourns Loss of William K. (Bill) Bowes Jr. (1926-2016)
The UCSF community is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of William K. Bowes Jr., a Bay Area venture capitalist whose dedicated volunteer service and generous philanthropy supported medical research, access to college, higher education and the arts.
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Latino Children with Kidney Failure Have Superior Survival
Latino children with kidney failure have a surprising survival advantage over white children despite longer waits for transplants, according to a UCSF study that tracked more than 12,000 pediatric patients.
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More Anti-CRISPR Proteins to Block Cas9
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This Simple Strategy Could Help Doctors Ask Teens About Gender Identity
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CRISPR 'Kill' Switch Could Make Human Gene Editing Safer
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Off-Switch for CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing System Discovered
UCSF researchers have discovered a way to switch off the widely used CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system using newly identified anti-CRISPR proteins that are produced by bacterial viruses.
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UCSF Discovery May Lead to New Treatments to Protect Fetus from Deadly Effects of Food Poisoning
A newly identified bacterial protein that is shown to jump-start infection may be the culprit in a foodborne disease that strikes pregnant women in disproportionately high numbers, leading to miscarriage and pre-term birth.
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Margot Kushel: Tailoring Medical Care for the Homeless
Margot Kushel’s research, clinical and personal work with homeless patients stretches back to the 1990s when she was a medical resident at ZSFG.
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Enemies of All Maladies
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Meet The Real Heroes Of The Fight To Treat Alzheimer’s
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Positive Multiple Sclerosis Clinical Trial Results Support New Treatment Approach
In findings that show the effectiveness of a new strategy for treating multiple sclerosis, researchers are reporting positive results from three large, international, multicenter Phase III clinical trials of the investigational drug ocrelizumab in both relapsing multiple sclerosis and primary progressive multiple sclerosis.
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Statin Drugs Tied to Better Surgery Outcomes
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UCSF Joins Multi-University Collaboration Agreement with Facebook’s Building 8
UCSF is joining a unique collaboration agreement with Facebook that would allow its researchers to engage in joint technology projects without the usual red tape.
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Cutting Through the Clamor: How the Brain Helps Us Understand Spoken Words in Noisy Settings
UCSF scientists have discovered an unexpected mechanism the brain uses to seamlessly compensate when speech sounds are obscured by noise.
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Evidence of the Superiority of Female Doctors
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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy to Deliver 2017 UCSF School of Medicine Commencement Address
The UCSF School of Medicine has announced that Surgeon General Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy will deliver the commencement address on May 15, 2017.
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UCSF Shuttle System Begins Holiday Schedule Dec. 19
The UCSF shuttle service will operate on a limited holiday schedule beginning Monday, Dec. 19.
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UCSF Experts to Share Latest Research at 2017 Precision Medicine World Conference
For the second consecutive year, UCSF is co-hosting the Precision Medicine World Conference, which is being held in January 2017.
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Brains That Are Still Getting Wired In Babyhood
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Firefighters Pledge a Helping Hand to Save Santa’s UCSF Visit
The media are invited to join Santa as he arrives at the hospital in a fire truck and meets with young patients in the art studio.
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‘Shock and kill’ therapy offers fresh hope for HIV cure, researchers say
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CRISPR Study Reveals Unexpected Roles of Non-Coding RNAs
UCSF researchers have taken a major step toward understanding the function of the tens of thousands of human genes that do not code for proteins, a phenomenon considered one of the key remaining mysteries of the human genome.
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CRISPR-Based Single-Cell Genetics Platform Enables Rapid Analysis of Critical Gene Networks
Researchers from UC San Francisco and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have developed a new method for performing high-throughput functional screening of complex genetic interactions.
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Abortion Is Found to Have Little Effect on Women’s Mental Health
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Drug 85 Times as Potent as Marijuana Caused a ‘Zombielike’ State in Brooklyn
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Scientific Reasons for Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions
To give you a bit of scientific motivation, UCSF gathered some of the latest research behind the most popular health-related New Year’s resolutions that attest to why it really is good for your body to see them through.
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Quiz: How Well Do You Know UCSF in 2016?
UC San Francisco had many milestones in 2016 in research, education and patient care. Take this quiz to see what you remember about some of our major advances from the last year.
