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Before life emerged on earth, either a primitive kind of metabolism or an RNA-like duplicating machinery must have set the stage – so experts believe. But what preceded these pre-life steps?

UCSF urogynecologist Sharon Knight, MD, recently returned from Niger, where she treated women with an extreme form of incontinence.

Cardiologist Deepak Srivastava, MD, has received the prestigious 2007 E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research.

A longtime UCSF Children's Hospital patient's wish came true to help make taking cancer medicine a little easier to swallow.

Princeton University awarded honorary degrees during Commencement exercises June 5 to seven distinguished individuals for their contributions to humanitarian efforts and athletic achievements, aerospace and public service, science, literature, medicine, history and the arts.

A close cousin of the bacterium that debilitated thousands of World War I soldiers has been isolated at UCSF from a patient who had been on an international vacation.

John Baxter, professor of medicine in the UCSF Diabetes Center, is the 2007 recipient of the Endocrine Society's highest award — the Fred Conrad Koch Award.