University of California San Francisco
Ethnographer Stacy Torres, PhD, is shedding a unique light on how we think about social ties and social relationships among older people.
UCSF lab found that a chemical that acts as a neurotransmitter in the nervous system is essential for cytonemes to mediate cell-to-cell communication between non-neural cells.
It was the 12th year in a row that UCSF claimed the top spot among public institutions, and the eighth straight year in which the University ranked second overall among institutions nationwide.
More than a thousand projects across the University received federal funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2018, totaling more than $647.8 million.
Researchers at UCSF say Google Translate is trustworthy when translating written medical advice, but there are some caveats.
UCSF researchers have created a proof-of-concept method for ensuring the integrity of clinical trials data with blockchain.
A UCSF study of human and mouse pancreatic tissue suggests a new origin story for type 1 diabetes.
Ronald D. Vale, PhD, professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF, has been named executive director of the Janelia Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and an HHMI vice president, effective in early 2020.
A program offering group support, acupuncture, mindfulness, massage and gentle exercise may help prevent patients on prescription opioids from spiraling down to drug misuse, overdose and death.