UCSF's Alan Ashworth, PhD, has received an award from a cancer nonprofit organization for his “significant contributions to research, advocacy, clinical care, education, awareness, or support of hereditary cancer.”

After decades of challenges, scientists have developed an imaging technique that allows them to see the detailed structure of tiny proteins — and it's changing how we think about medicine.

New research on kidney stone formation reveals that zinc levels may contribute to kidney stone formation, a common urinary condition that can cause excruciating pain.

UC San Francisco is launching a healthy beverage initiative in an effort to align campus food and drink sales with the growing science about the negative impact of excess sugar consumption on health.

Twenty-five years after reading the influential study that sparked his interest in respiration and anesthesiology research, Rich Kallet co-authored another landmark paper that appeared in the same journal.