San Francisco 49ers legends Joe Montana and Dwight Clark and R&B singer/songwriter Robin Thicke helped ring in the holiday season last week at the fifth annual 555 Holiday Tree Lighting, where UCSF's inaugural community award was presented.

A tiny, translucent zebrafish that glows green when its liver makes glucose has helped an international team of researchers identify a compound that regulates whole-body metabolism and appears to protect obese mice from signs of metabolic disorders.

UCSF and the Gladstone Institutes will observe World AIDS Day on December 3 with a symposium featuring emerging investigators working to combat the disease.

UCSF employees who show their UCSF identification badge can work out for free from December 1 through the 12 at UCSF fitness centers on the Parnassus and Mission Bay campuses.

Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes have defined for the first time a key underlying process implicated in multiple sclerosis — a discovery offers new hope for the millions who suffer from this debilitating disease for which there is no cure.