University of California San Francisco
While long-term acute care hospitals are designed to help patients recover and regain independence, fewer than 1-in-5 older adults who were transferred to such facilities were alive five years later.
Blood test that is currently under development may flag concussion in CT-negative patients, enabling them to be evaluated for long-term complications.
A new web tool spells out for the first time the exposures that more than 6.5 million working women in California face that could increase their risk for breast cancer, including industrial solvents, antimicrobials and phthalates.
Eighty-eight percent of the e-cigarette waste collected was found at schools serving predominantly upper-income families with mostly white student populations. None were found at schools serving predominantly low- and middle-income families with large Latinx and African American populations.
Researchers discovered a scorpion toxin that targets the “wasabi receptor,” which they think it can be used as a tool for studying chronic pain and inflammation, and may eventually lead to the development of new kinds of non-opioid pain relievers.
Nearly one-third of the students at UCSF are the first in their families to graduate from college. They shared stories of finding mentorship, struggling with self-doubt, and paving the way for others.
Increasing medications for blood pressure when discharging older patients from the hospital may pose a greater risk of falls, fainting and acute kidney injury that outweighs the potential benefits.
Study shows that the adult-to-iPSC conversion process can mutate DNA found in mitochondria, causing mice and humans to reject iPSCs, and stem cell transplants more generally.
Researchers want to learn how to repair certain types of skin rather than providing short-term relief.
In a paper researchers describe a technique that uses a special version of CRISPR developed at UCSF to systematically alter the activity of genes in human neurons generated from stem cells, the first successful merger of stem cell-derived cell types and CRISPR screening technologies.
Scientists identify faulty molecular recycling as potential driver of Alzheimer’s disease.
The gifts will launch new research initiatives on their respective campuses to leverage the growing science of the human microbiome.
UCSF researchers aim to radically rethink the role of the microbiome in early life and develop new interventions aimed at preventing childhood diseases.
Raphael Hirsch comes to UCSF from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, where he served as chair of the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics.
UCSF scientists show that Alzheimer’s disease directly attacks brain regions responsible for wakefulness during the day.
A group of prominent University of California faculty say they will step away from the editorial boards of scientific journals published by Elsevier until the publishing giant agrees to restart negotiations.
Eighteen high school students, all young women, took part in the first cohort of UCSF AI4ALL, a program to promote greater diversity and inclusion in the field of Artificial Intelligence with a focus on applications to biomedicine.
