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Aggressive Surgery Increases Survival with Low-Grade Brain Tumors
Resecting brain tumors called gliomas as much as possible soon after diagnosis offers a distinct survival advantage when looking at the disease trajectory 10 years later, find UCSF researchers.
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FDA Poised to Approve New Alzheimer’s Drug
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Strategies To Implement New Year’s Resolutions on Improving Mental Health
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Asian Researchers Face Disparity With Key U.S. Science Funding Source
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Diana Greene Foster Named to Most Influential Researchers List
Diana Greene Foster of UCSF was named one of the top 10 most influential scientists of 2022 by "Nature" for her study of what happens to women who are denied abortions.
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30 Years On, Are We Winning the Fight Against Alzheimer’s?
UCSF experts discuss the current state of Alzheimer’s treatments and future therapies that may slow progression of the disease.
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Will ‘Dry January’ Trigger Alcohol Withdrawal Symptoms?
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Duping Antibodies with a Decoy, Researchers Aim to Prevent Rejection of Transplanted Cells
Researchers have genetically engineered cells to distract antibodies from attacking friendly, but foreign, cells. This could prevent transplants from being rejected.
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COVID-19 Vaccines, Prior Infection Reduce Transmission of Omicron
California prisons saw more than 20,000 COVID-19 Omicron cases over a five-month period. However, vaccination and boosting kept hospitalization and death rates low.
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How to Spare Yourself From Shoulder Pain
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UCSF Surgeons Standardize Brow Lift and Hairline Surgery Using Photo Analysis
Facial feminization surgery eliminates sources of misgendering for patients through procedures like hairline advancement, brow lift, rhinoplasty, genioplasty and chondrolaryngoplasty.
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What Older Americans Need To Know Before Undergoing Major Surgery
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A Dozen Californians Overdose on This Holiday Spice Every Year
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Unique UCSF-city Internship Program Offers Paid Prep for Mental Health Careers
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Gene Therapy Trial Shows Promise for Treating ‘Bubble Boy’ Syndrome. Now Comes the Hard Part
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How Gene Therapy Saved a Child from “Bubble Boy Disease”
In a breakthrough, HT became the first person in the world to receive gene-corrected stem cells for Artemis-SCID. His new immune system is life-changing.
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Infant Gene Therapy is a Breakthrough for Artemis-SCID Patients
Ten children who were born without functioning immune systems due to Artemis-SCID are now leading healthy lives thanks to a new gene therapy treatment pioneered at UCSF.
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UCSF Researchers Uncover New Pathway for Molecular Cancer Drug Therapies
Researchers have discovered a cellular uptake pathway for larger molecules that delivers cell-permeable drugs efficiently.
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Rethinking How Cancer Cells Evade Targeted Therapy
Through decades of biobanking at UCSF, researchers were able to comprehensively map intra-cellular signaling in the cells of recurrent glioblastoma, identifying novel cell-extrinsic therapeutic targets.
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During Sleep, Brain Regions Synchronize to Create Motor Memory
While we sleep, our brains process our daily actions to create motor memory, which makes physical acts such as throwing a basketball subconscious.
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UCSF Issues Report, Apologizes for Unethical 1960-70’s Prison Research
The new Program of Historical Reconciliation (PHR) at UCSF aims to acknowledge past harms, especially in unethical research and experiments.
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What is Anxiety?
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UC Launches Pandemic Recovery and Readiness Research Initiative
The California Collaborative for Pandemic Recovery and Readiness Research (CPR3) at UCSF will investigate the effects of the pandemic on California communities and individuals.
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UCSF Research Crucial to Approval of Breakthrough Diabetes Therapy
Groundbreaking research by UCSF scientists has led to FDA approval of a new therapy that can delay the onset of type 1 diabetes by at least 2 years.
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Is Too Much Screen Time Bad for Kids? It’s Complicated
In a Q&A, UCSF’s Jason Nagata answers questions about the links between screen time and illnesses like OCD for children and teens.
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Killing Pancreatic Cancer with T Cells that Supercharge Themselves
T-cells can be directed to produce cytokine, a powerful anti-cancer component, when they encounter cancer cells. This holds tremendous promise for cancer immunotherapy.
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2022: The Year in Review
We glance back at 2022 with grace and gratefulness. We regained a sense of normalcy. We reconnected in person. We uncovered our smiles again. Let us appreciate how we got here with some special moments from around the University and our most popular health and science stories.
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UCSF Health Reaches 20,000 Organ Transplants
UCSF surgeons have performed the health system’s 20,000th solid organ transplant, making it just the third in the nation to reach that milestone.
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Research Finds More Negative Effects of Screen Time on Kids, Including Higher Risk of OCD