The threat for a new pandemic flu is real, but nobody knows just how real.

UCSF will fly its flags at half staff until sundown on December 15 in memory of UC President Emeritus David S. Saxon, who died yesterday.

Students at UCSF and the University of Texas have created living photographs, a novel example of the emerging field of synthetic biology.

The San Francisco VA Medical Center, the Department of Defense, and the Northern California Institute for Research and Education have joined together to establish a new SFVAMC Neuroscience Center of Excellence.

Researchers at the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease have identified a potential new way to stop brain cell death related to Alzheimer's disease.

Scientific experts from UCSF, UC Berkeley, UC Davis and others will gather at UCSF on December 12 to discuss the new avian influenza virus and other topics.

UCSF is among 10 universities selected by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to help lead the way in interdisciplinary graduate education.

A new study shows the more kids see smoking on screen, the more likely they are to smoke.

The first complete review of research on the link between teenagers viewing on-screen smoking and then taking up smoking themselves finds that one leads to the other.

Many experts fear that a human plague may emerge if the avian flu virus acquires the ability to spread directly from person to person.