10 Ways UCSF Is Exploring the Gut
Scientists at UCSF are studying the gastrointestinal tract to unlock the healing secrets of our trillions of gut microbes.
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What Bold Steps Are Needed to Lead UCSF into a New Era?
One key is a building designed by scientists for scientists, says Catherine Lucey, MD, UCSF’s executive vice chancellor and provost.
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The Future of Neuroscience: Building a Silicon Brain
A digital twin of a human mind? It isn’t science fiction.
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On the Origin of Diseases
Insights from human evolution could change how we understand and treat illness.
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How a Brain Implant and AI Gave a Woman with Paralysis Her Voice Back
UCSF scientists made international headlines when they developed a brain-computer interface that allowed a stroke survivor to speak for the first time in 18 years. Find this award-winning video, which has been viewed by millions, on UCSF’s YouTube channel.
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14 Ways UCSF Is Exploring the Heart
In labs and clinics across UCSF, scientists are unraveling how to keep one of our hardest-working organs beating away.
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Four Quick Ways to Truly Rest
Deep rest is best achieved in prolonged practices that relax the body and quiet the mind. But you can also combat stress within seconds by activating your parasympathetic nervous system. Here are a few approaches to making this biological shift quickly.
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The Power of Deep Rest
Perpetual stress runs us down. But a truly restorative state that alters our bodies at the cellular level can counter this deterioration.
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Genetic Testing Is the Key to Our Health Secrets
Our genome may one day serve as a passport guiding our health care – from cradle to grave.
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12 Ways UCSF Is Exploring the Lungs
A world of science is examining the centerpiece of our respiratory system.
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Dangerous Beauty
Cell biologist and engineer Matthew Kutys, PhD, and his team harness organoids – living tissues derived from patient tumors – to study how cancer spreads.
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Corporate Strategy, National Tragedy
UCSF’s industry archives expose the marketing tactics that fueled the opioid epidemic.
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A Prescription for Loneliness
What a tiny grassroots program in the Tenderloin is teaching doctors about healing through human connection.
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The Road to Rejuvenation
Fortified stem cells. Enhanced memory. A longevity hormone. UCSF researchers are finding out whether we can cancel – or at least delay – old age.
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What’s New in the Search for a Long COVID Cure?
UCSF infectious disease specialist Michael Peluso, MD, who co-leads one of the world’s oldest studies of long COVID, discusses the condition’s mysteries.
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Calling All Scientists to Fight the Next Pandemic
UCSF’s Nevan Krogan, PhD, is taking aim at the world’s deadliest diseases by uniting scientists and the biomedical industry to speed treatments.
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You’ll Soon Be Able to Get a Blood Test for Alzheimer’s. Will You Want One?
The advent of cheap, easy-to-use blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease has the potential to revolutionize diagnosis and treatment. But they also raise difficult questions that the field is only beginning to consider.
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The Cancer Breakthrough Boom
Engineered immune cells. Supercharged scans. Drug implants. Gene manipulators. Blood biopsies. Read how these breakthroughs are transforming cancer care.
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Can Neuroscience Help Stem the Tide of Teen Depression?
A new treatment approach draws on research into the unique teenage brain.
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The Sleep Prescription
Drawing on his experience as a sleep scientist at UCSF, Aric Prather, PhD, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, shares his simple but powerful seven-day plan to achieve restorative rest.
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How Much Can We Control Our Own Fertility?
People trying to conceive are bombarded with advice meant to improve their odds. But how much power do we really have over our fertility?
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Mission: A Tobacco-Free World
With vaping taking over the youth market, Pamela Ling, MD ’96, MPH, applies her research-driven social media and marketing expertise to beat the tobacco industry at its own game.
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Big Little Lives
Trillions of invisible organisms make up the human microbiome. Now, medical scientists want to put these bugs to work.
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Trip Therapy
Could psychedelics become mainstream medicines?
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As Prescribed
This weekly podcast features conversations with UCSF luminaries on breaking research ranging from sleep genetics to screen time for kids to COVID surges.
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Can You Buy Your Way to Better Health with Detoxing?
Companies claim there’s bad stuff in our homes and bodies, and we should pay to purge it. What’s worth worrying over?
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Preparing for a Post-Roe America
What happens once abortion is illegal in half the country?
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The Nobel-Winning Discoveries Illuminating How We Sense the World
How David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian found the molecules in our bodies that sense heat, cold, touch, and pain – and transformed sensory neuroscience.
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Wildhood: The Astounding Connections between Human and Animal Adolescents
Does your rambunctious teen seem like an animal? You may be on to something. Harvard evolutionary biologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD ’87, and science writer Kathryn Bowers reveal startling similarities between humans and animals in young adulthood.
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UCSF’s Robin Carhart-Harris, PhD, on “The Psychedelic Therapy Podcast”
Explore the power of psychedelic therapy to treat the ailing human mind with international expert Carhart-Harris, who joined UCSF in 2021 as the Metzner Distinguished Professor and director of the new Neuroscape Psychedelics Division. Discover what his comparison of psilocybin with an antidepressant revealed on the Aug. 19 episode.