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UCSF Award Program Guides Promising Early-Stage Research Toward Patient Benefit
<p>An innovative project to develop a potential therapy to treat a wide range of cancers has won a major UC San Francisco award that aims to drive promising early-stage research through the complex process of translating ideas into patient benefit.</p>
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Artificial Kidney Holds Promise for Vast Majority on Dialysis
<p>A UCSF-led effort to create an implantable artificial kidney for dialysis patients is now featured in a video as part of the University of California's Onward California campaign.</p>
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Study Uses Mobile Technology to Help Predict and Prevent Heart Disease
<p>A UCSF team has developed an ambitious online cardiovascular study using smartphones, with the goal of enrolling 1 million people from all over the world to improve heart health.</p>
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Precision Medicine: The Revolution in Health Starts May 2013
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Disease Knowledge May Advance Faster with New Gene Probing Tool
Scientists at UCSF have found a more precise way to turn off genes, a finding that will speed research discoveries and biotech advances and may eventually prove useful in reprogramming cells to regenerate organs and tissues.
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Sleep Aids Tied to Hip Fractures In the Elderly
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"Mortality Index" Suggests Key to Living to 2023 Includes Being Slightly Overweight
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How Much Will I Be Charged at the Emergency Room?
Emergency departments play a critical role in health care, yet consumers typically know little about how medical charges are determined and often underestimate their financial responsibility -- then are shocked when the hospital bill arrives.
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Quantity of Sugar in Food Supply Linked to Diabetes Rates
The results of a large epidemiological study conducted at UC San Francisco suggest that sugar may have a direct, independent link to diabetes.
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Sleep Loss Alters Genes While Raising Risk of Disease
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Silicon Valley Titans Launch Breakthrough Science Prize at UCSF
<p>One current and three former UCSF scientists are among 11 named as recipients of a major new award aiming at spurring life sciences innovation that’s sponsored by a Russian Internet entrepreneur and Silicon Valley business leaders, including founders of Facebook and Google.</p>
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Secrets of Human Speech Uncovered
<p>A team of researchers at UCSF has uncovered the neurological basis of speech motor control, the complex coordinated activity of tiny brain regions that controls our lips, jaw, tongue and larynx as we speak.</p>
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California's Tobacco Control Program Generates Huge Health Care Savings
Over a span of nearly 20 years, California’s tobacco control program cost $2.4 billion and reduced health care costs by $134 billion, according to a new study by UCSF.
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Gene Invaders Are Stymied by a Cell's Genome Defense
<p>UCSF researchers have discovered a molecular machine that helps protect a cell’s genes against invading DNA that contributes to inherited human disease and death.</p>
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Stem Cell Survival Strategy Is Key to Blood and Immune System Health
Stem cells of the aging bone marrow recycle their own molecules to survive and keep replenishing the blood and immune systems as the body ages, UCSF researchers have discovered.
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Reducing Sodium in American Diet Would Save Hundreds of Thousands of Lives
<p>A new study finds that hundreds of thousands of lives could be saved over 10 years if Americans reduced their sodium consumption to the levels recommended in federal guidelines.</p>
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Maternal Exposure to Air Pollution Linked to Low Birth Weights Worldwide
Mothers who are exposed to particulate air pollution of the type emitted by vehicles, urban heating and coal power plants are significantly more likely to bear children of low birth weight, according to a UCSF-led international study.
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UCSF to Present Latest on Tobacco Research and Education
<p>Postdoctoral fellow Amanda Fallin will talk about the tobacco industry's role in shaping the tea party at a symposium presented by the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control, Research and Education on February 8.</p>
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Female Smokers' Lung Cancer Risk Rises
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Watch the Mission Bay Celebration Livestream
<p>UCSF will launch the celebration of the Mission Bay campus' 10-year anniversary on Wednesday, Jan. 23, with a news conference and reception at Genentech Hall that will be livestreamed.</p>
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Scientific Community at Mission Bay Fosters Research Breakthroughs
<p>With UCSF Mission Bay gleaming brighter every day, it’s easy to forget a time when some UCSF researchers did not want to leave the hive of activity on the Parnassus Heights campus for entirely new labs across town in a once-forsaken neighborhood.</p>
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Light in Womb 'Gives Healthy Eyes' - In Mice
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Coca-Cola Weighs in on Obesity Fight
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Light Exposure During Pregnancy Key to Normal Eye Development
New research in Nature concludes the eye – which depends on light to see – also needs light to develop normally during pregnancy.
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UCSF Teams Tackle Childhood Mortality and River Blindness
Two UCSF teams have received a total of $16 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study new ways to significantly reduce childhood mortality and disease in developing nations.
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Study Examines Qualities of Good and Bad Mentoring Relationships
<p>What makes a good mentor? Previous studies have shown the professional benefits of cultivating a strong mentoring relationship, but a recent study co-led by UCSF researchers delved further to analyze the attributes that make a successful mentor-mentee pairing.</p>
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UCSF Researchers Collaborate to Translate Discoveries into New Solutions for Advancing Health
<p>UCSF is a health-sciences research powerhouse – a premier academic medical center that values not only the physician who designs clinical trial protocols for promising experimental drugs, but also the talented lab scientist who unearths nature’s secrets on the molecular and cellular levels.</p>
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2012: Top 10 Most-Read Stories
<p>A large-scale study of marijuana's toll on the lungs, the dangers of sugar, Shinya Yamanaka's Nobel Prize win for his stem-cell science discovery, sex-starved fruit flies that drink more and the promise of a brain cancer vaccine were among the top 10 most-read stories of 2012.</p>
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MRIs Reveal Signs of Brain Injuries Not Seen in CT Scans
Hospital MRIs may be better at predicting long-term outcomes for people with mild traumatic brain injuries than CT scans, according to a clinical trial led by researchers at UCSF and the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.