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Archive: $500 million game-changer: UCSF given historic gift
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The Quest by Parents and Scientists to End Pediatric Epilepsy
Children with severe cases of epilepsy such as Dravet syndrome are finding new and unexpected cures thanks to determined pediatricians and translational research at UCSF.
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How Can We Better Prevent Tooth Decay?
School of Dentistry Dean John Featherstone, PhD, explains his new philosophy of preventive dentistry.
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Jeffrey Kang, MD ’81, MPH: A focus on service
Jeffrey Kang, MD ’81, MPH, saw that medicine is a service fueled by altruism and passion, but it also has to operate as a business.
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Archive: Access to Free Drinking Water in SF Neighborhoods Driven by New Partnership
Over the next year, 19 new public water stations will be installed across San Francisco, thanks to a collaboration involving the City and County of San Francisco, community groups, and UCSF Health.
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Archive: Exploring the Epigenetics of Ethnicity
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Archive: Science in Focus: Rebuilding the Salivary Gland After Radiation
UCSF researchers are working to figure out how mouse stem cells divide and differentiate into acinar cells to rebuild the salivary gland after an injury. Such research could apply to patients who often lose the ability to produce saliva after undergoing radiation therapy for head and neck cancers.
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Archive: Largest-Ever Gift to UCSF Honors Philanthropist Helen Diller
To honor and build on a lifetime of giving and charitable service by the late Helen Diller, the Helen Diller Foundation has granted $500 million to UCSF, the largest single donation in UCSF’s history and one of the largest ever to a U.S. university.
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Archive: Cultural Differences May Leave Their Mark on DNA
A UC San Francisco-led study has identified signatures of ethnicity in the genome that appear to reflect an ethnic group’s shared culture and environment, rather than its common genetic ancestry.
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Archive: UCSF, Pfizer Renew Research Collaboration, Citing Progress in Drug Discovery Research
UC San Francisco and Pfizer Inc.’s Centers for Therapeutic Innovation have renewed an agreement to identify and develop biologic compounds against both known and novel targets.
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Archive: Jeff Sheehy, of UCSF AIDS Research Institute, Appointed as San Francisco Supervisor
Jeff Sheehy, the longtime director of communications at UC San Francisco’s Aids Research Institute, has been appointed by San Francisco Mayor Edwin M. Lee to serve on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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Archive: UCSF Medical Student and Immigrant Rights Advocate Featured on Forbes’ ‘30 Under 30’ List
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Archive: Former Senior Vice Chancellor Steve Barclay, Key Financial Architect of Mission Bay Campus, Dies
Stephen J. Barclay, the former senior vice chancellor of Finance and Administration who guided UCSF through state budget cutbacks as well as the planning of the Mission Bay campus, has died. He was 70.
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Archive: Mayor to make history by appointing SF’s first openly HIV-positive supervisor
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Archive: Science in Focus: Using Light to Make Single Cells Self-Destruct
Researchers at UCSF have developed a new optogenetic tool that can be used to completely eliminate single cells from brain networks in animals. The researchers believe the new tool will enable exquisitely precise experiments to help researchers understand how each cell contributes to the whole.
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Community Connection
Our community members are the soul of UCSF.
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How Artificial Intelligence Techniques Are Bringing Efficiency to the Hunt for New Drugs
Steven Altschuler and Lani Wu are using artificial intelligence to spot and label potential medical uses for biological compounds.
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Archive: One Man’s Quest to Change the Way We Die
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Archive: You may have more control over aging than you think, say ‘The Telomere Effect’ authors
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Archive: Scientists have discovered an 'off' switch for the revolutionary CRISPR gene editing tool
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Archive: Alcohol abuse linked to higher heart risks, study says
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Archive: 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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Archive: Watch: Mysteries of pregnancy revealed in 3-D imaging by UCSF research team
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Archive: 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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Archive: 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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Archive: CRISPR 'Kill' Switch Could Make Human Gene Editing Safer
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Archive: More Anti-CRISPR Proteins to Block Cas9
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Archive: This Simple Strategy Could Help Doctors Ask Teens About Gender Identity
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Archive: 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.
