With just over a week to go before AIDS Walk San Francisco, UCSF is looking for more walkers, supporters and volunteers for the fundraising event.

When it comes to getting fat, it's the brain that matters most...

Scientists have discovered that adult neural stem cells, which exist in the brain throughout life, are not a single, homogeneous group. Instead, they are a diverse group of cells, each capable of giving rise to specific types of neurons.

Julio Garcia-Aguilar, MD, PhD, has been named surgeon in chief of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center.

In the last 40 years, scientists have perfected ways to determine the knot-like structures of enzymes, but they've been stumped trying to translate the structure of enzymes into an understanding of their function – what they actually do in the body.

Craig Venter's recent announcement that his J. Craig Venter Institute research team had successfully made one new bacterial species from another brought this reaction from UCSF's premier synthetic biologist, Christopher Voigt, PhD.

In May, TIME magazine named UCSF microbiologist Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, as one of this year's 100 most influential men and women shaping our world.

Flavio Vicenti, a kidney and pancreas transplant specialist at UCSF, is now president of the American Society of Transplantation.

The health care system in California could save nearly $1.3 million a year with few adverse public health effects if it discontinued universal tuberculosis skin testing of children entering kindergarten, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco.