Turning Fat to Muscle: A Conversation with Growth Factor and Cell Differentiation Expert Rik Derynck
Turning fat cells into muscle could one day be standard therapy.
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UCSF to Host Spring Retreat to Launch CCTI
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Chancellor Bishop Named to Royal Society
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Gladstone's Shinya Yamanaka Wins Prestigious Shaw Prize for Stem Cell Discoveries
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UCSF Global Health Sciences Offers New, One-Year Master's Degree
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Scientoons, Anyone?
The Euroscience meeting in July offers an embarrassment of riches.
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Three Campus GLBT Leaders to Receive Chancellor's Award
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New study is recruiting smokers who want to quit
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Pfizer and UCSF form alliance to advance a broad range of research
In a novel experiment to advance new drug discovery and development, as well as stimulate basic research, Pfizer, Inc. and UCSF have launched a collaboration that spans many disciplines, several UC campuses and multiple Pfizer research units.
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Excessive drinking and relapse rapidly cut in new approach
Boosting the level of a specific brain protein quickly cut excessive drinking of alcohol in a new animal study, and also prevented relapse -- the common tendency found in sober alcoholics to easily return to heavy drinking after just one glass.
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Computer Security: A Call to Action for Every One of Us
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Hope for Headaches: A Conversation with Headache Expert Peter Goadsby
Help for headaches starts with you...
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Alumnus Receives Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award
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Symposium Addresses Glass Ceiling in the University Setting
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Volberding to Join Mayor Newsom in Town Hall Discussion About Health Care
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Eating and weight gain not necessarily linked, study shows
You may not be what you eat after all. A new study shows that increased eating does not necessarily lead to increased fat. The finding in the much-studied roundworm opens the possibility of identifying new targets for drugs to control weight, the researchers say.
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Roundworm Sheds Light on Fat Storage
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New Website Chronicles History of UCSF
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Obesity to Blame for Climate Change?
With the obesity epidemic now firmly established as the health crisis du jour, I don’t want to be accused of piling on. But I could not let pass this BBC News health story posted in mid-May, which seems to transform an interesting point into mean-spiritedness, not to mention point the finger in the wrong direction.
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UCSF's Yamamoto Endorses AAAS Report on Threats to Science
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Lang Tapped as Space Research Team Leader
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German Wins 2008 JDRF Award for Scientific Excellence
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A Conversation About Aging, Life and Death with Medical Anthropologist Sharon Kaufman
Plan your death like you would your life or risk a living death instead...
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UCSF Stem Cell and Cancer Symposium
Cells in tumors vary. Scientists wonder whether treatments often fail to kill a persistent type of cancerous cell. The goal now is to understand and target these "cancer stem cells."
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Firefly project features live reading of letters from patients and their teenage pen pals on June
Members of the public are invited to attend a live dramatic reading of letters written by adults coping with life-threatening illnesses and their healthy teenage pen pals at the annual Firefly Project Adaptation on Wednesday, June 4.
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UCSF alerts patients about a security breach
The University of California San Francisco is alerting a group of patients that it has discovered a security breach involving a computer that held personal patient information.
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UCSF's Glantz Slams Hollywood's Lax Enforcement of Tobacco Rating
A gadfly with giant wings, UCSF’s Stan Glantz, PhD, knows how to cause a stir.
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85 Percent of Americans Are Right About Something
While it’s unlikely to match the size of the audience watching the <cite>American Idol</cite> finale, a presidential debate on science has won the endorsement of 85 percent of Americans, according to a poll commissioned by Research!America and ScienceDebate2008.com. Health care, climate change and energy top the list of topics preferred by poll respondents.
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New findings in breast cancer
Clinical researchers from the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center will present new research findings during the 44th American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, taking place in Chicago May 30-June 3.
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UCSF Awards Gold-Headed Cane to Advocate for Disabled
Disability rights advocate Nat Gleason, one of UCSF’s 146 new physicians, received the Gold-Headed Cane Award during the School of Medicine commencement ceremonies.v