UCSF is now offering some patients the options of local anesthetic instead of general anesthesia, which can help make surgeries faster and speed in the recovery process.

The awards, given by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, recognize outstanding achievement in graduate studies in the biological sciences.

Ethnographer Stacy Torres, PhD, is shedding a unique light on how we think about social ties and social relationships among older people.

UCSF lab found that a chemical that acts as a neurotransmitter in the nervous system is essential for cytonemes to mediate cell-to-cell communication between non-neural cells.