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A chemical that could potentially be used in eye drops to reverse cataracts has been identified by a team of scientists from UCSF, the University of Michigan (U-M), and Washington University in St. Louis (WUSTL).
A gift of $20 million from the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund to the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF will support research on mood disorders.
Development of a surgically implantable, artificial kidney has received a $6 million boost, thanks to a new grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).
To determine whether healthy food could help low-income people better control their diabetes, a pilot study by UCSF and Feeding America tracked nearly 700 people at food banks in California, Texas and Ohio over two years.
A research team led by UCSF scientists has identified a molecular switch capable of converting unhealthy white fat into healthy, energy-burning brown fat in mice.
Reducing consumption of added sugar has the power to reverse a cluster of chronic metabolic diseases, high cholesterol and blood pressure, in children in as little as 10 days, according to a study by researchers at UCSF and Touro University California.
UCSF Sandler Fellow Joseph Bondy-Denomy studies the native roles of CRISPR and anti-CRISPR proteins in bacteria and phages.
Genetic ancestry, as well as facial characteristics, may play an important part in who we select as mates, according to an analysis from UCSF, Microsoft Research, Harvard, UC Berkeley and Tel Aviv University.
Health care providers must have detailed discussions with their older adult patients to better determine their true life expectancy, according to researchers at UCSF and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
UCSF has launched a collaboration with international pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline plc (GSK) to promote early-stage research with the potential to translate into new therapies for cancer, obesity and antibiotic resistant bacteria.
To help stop the spread of antibiotic resistance, UCSF scientists are urging hospitals around the country to stop buying meat from animals that were given antibiotics for growth promotion.
A coalition of leukemia researchers led by scientists from UCSF has discovered surprising genetic diversity in juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia (JMML), a rare but aggressive childhood blood cancer.
Online advertising based on Google search terms is a potentially effective way to deliver targeted cancer prevention education, according to a study led by Eleni Linos, MD, DrPH, assistant professor of dermatology at UCSF.
Gay and bisexual men were up to six times more likely than heterosexual men to take part in indoor tanning, and twice as likely to report a history of skin cancer, according to a study led by UCSF researchers.