Archive: Campus to Close During Winter Holidays as Part of Furlough Plan
The campus will close from December 24 through January 3, 2010, as part of the UC-mandated furlough plan.
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Archive: Jeffrey H. Janian joins Department of Preventive & Restorative Dental Sciences
New UCSF Faculty, September 2009
Archive: Lowell Lo joins Department of Internal Medicine
New UCSF Faculty, September 2009
Archive: Somnath Mookherjee joins Department of Medicine
New UCSF Faculty, September 2009
Archive: Laura Plantinga joins Department of Medicine
New UCSF Faculty, September 2009
Archive: Mary Premenko-Lanier joins Department of Medicine
New UCSF Faculty, September 2009
Archive: Prions found in feces of deer asymptomatic for chronic wasting disease
Scientists have discovered that deer asymptomatic for a fatal brain condition known as chronic wasting disease excrete the infectious prions that cause the disease in their feces. The finding, they say, suggests a plausible explanation for transmission of the disease among deer and, possibly, elk and moose in the environment.
Archive: Experts to Share Insight into Cuban Health Care System
As United States legislators discuss health care reform, two UCSF experts will offer insights into one public health care system that they think works on September 17.
Archive: Researchers restore missing protein in rare genetic brain disorder
UCSF researchers have successfully used protease inhibitors to restore to normal levels a key protein involved in early brain development. Reduced levels of that protein have been shown to cause the rare brain disorder lissencephaly, which is characterized by brain malformations, seizures, severe mental retardation and very early death in human infants.
Archive: Researchers Probe Links Between Modern Humans and Neanderthals
Scientists are using old bones to completely map the DNA of Neanderthals. Comparisons may shed light on what makes our own species unique.