Five UCSF stem cell scientists have received New Faculty grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

An aggressive childhood brain tumor known as medulloblastoma originates in normal brain “stem” cells that turn malignant when acted on by a known mutant, cancer-causing oncogene, say researchers from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Scientists have identified a pattern of gene activity that predicts which patients who experience the first clinical symptoms of multiple sclerosis – known as clinically isolated syndrome – are at high risk of converting to the full blown disease.