Several UCSF scientists attended the fourth annual International Society for Stem Cell Research meeting in Toronto, June 28-July 1.

A child care center serving more than 80 infants and toddlers opened recently at UCSF Mission Bay.

UCSF prides itself on employing staff with diverse and unique personal stories.

A University of California, San Francisco study has found that men with advanced, often untreatable prostate cancer who received a therapeutic cancer vaccine went on to survive longer than those receiving a placebo.

San Francisco native and family advocate Gwen Henry has been named co-chair of the UCSF University-Community Partnerships Council.

Meetings are planned for tomorrow and July 5 to discuss the recent death of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton, PhD.

UCSF scientists have discovered why some misfolded shapes of a prion protein are more infectious than others - differences that affect how readily prions can trigger abnormal folding in other proteins.

Robert L. Nussbaum, MD, professor of medicine and chief of medical genetics at UCSF, has been awarded one of seven research grants from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research to develop mammalian models of Parkinson's disease, the foundation announced this week.

Scientists are making headway in exploring the potential future use of stem cells to treat heart disease, according to a review article in the current issue of Nature (June 29, 2006).