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The Kidney Project Earns Award to Make Home Dialysis Better for Patients
A team of researchers from UCSF, Vanderbilt University, and Silicon Kidney are among the winners of the KidneyX: Redesign Dialysis prize competition.
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Allan Basbaum Elected to National Academy of Sciences
Basbaum studies the pathways underlying pain and itch.
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12th Annual Chancellor's Diversity Forum Focuses on Fixing the Pipeline
The annual event is a platform for community members to hear from senior leadership on diversity initiatives across the University. This year’s forum addressed the theme, “Outreach Efforts and the Leaky Pipeline for Students, Faculty and Staff.”
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Alzheimer’s Disease is a ‘Double-Prion Disorder,’ Study Shows
Two proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions – spreading through tissue like an infection by forcing normal proteins to adopt the same misfolded shape.
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Salesforce CEO Benioff donates $30 million to UCSF to study homelessness
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As Meth Use Surges, First Responders Struggle To Help Those In Crisis
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UCSF Launches New Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative with $30M Gift
Made possible by a $30 million gift from Marc and Lynne Benioff, UCSF announced the launch of the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, a new center that will research and identify evidence-based solutions to prevent and end homelessness.
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To Boldly Go or Anxiously Hang Back?
UCSF research has identified a particular group of nerve cells in the brain that play an important role in anxiety’s influence over behavior.
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I Have ALS, I wish a polygenic analysis had told me it was coming
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UCSF Leaders Unveil Long-term Vision to Transform Parnassus Heights Campus
UCSF leaders unveiled a long-term vision to transform the historic Parnassus Heights campus into a destination worthy of its world-renowned stature in health sciences.
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Why Big Tobacco and Big Vape love comparing nicotine to caffeine
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Customers Drawn to Cosmetics Featuring Cannabis-Derived Compound CBD
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Synthetic Speech Generated from Brain Recordings
The technology could one day restore the voices of people who have lost the ability to speak due to paralysis and other forms of neurological damage.
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Scientists Turn Brain Signals Into Speech, May Help People Who Cannot Talk
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UCSF to Conduct 2019 Staff Engagement Survey
As part of ongoing efforts to make UC San Francisco a great place to work, UCSF will conduct the annual engagement survey of all staff from April 30 to May 24. Campus and UCSF Health staff members
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David Wofsy Shares Three Wishes in 2019 UCSF Last Lecture
The annual event is based on the question: “If you have but one lecture to give, what would you say?”
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What Does It Mean to Spell Check Your Genetic Code?
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How this UCSF-grown startup is shaping hospitals' best practices
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Medicaid Could Save $2.6 Billion a Year With Dip in Smoking
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23andMe gene test might falsely reassure some people of breast cancer risk: Study
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‘Super-Hero’ Stem Cells Survive Radiation to Regrow Muscles
Newly discovered radiation-resistant stem cells are normally rare and inactive (left), but they take on a major role in muscle repair when regular stem cells are damaged by radiation (right). Credit:
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Three Faculty Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
UC San Francisco cancer biologist Alan Ashworth, PhD, structural biologist Yifan Cheng, PhD, and molecular physiologist Holly Ingraham, PhD, have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and
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Gene Therapy Advances To Better Treat 'Bubble Boy' Disease
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Don’t Count on 23andMe to Detect Most Breast Cancer Risks, Study Warns
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Treating Excess of One Hormone Shows Promise for Decreasing the Risk of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Two UCSF surgeons set out to study the role a hormone plays in obesity and stumbled on a surprising finding.
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Medical Student Named 2019 PD Soros Fellow
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After a Hip Fracture, Reducing the Risk of a Recurrence
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Making Better Pediatric Chemo Treatments, and Delivering Them to More Children
Janel Long-Boyle, a faculty member in the UCSF School of Pharmacy's Department of Clinical Pharmacy, has spent her career advancing lifesaving drugs.
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Study: School-Based Health Centers Effective in Changing Eating Habits, Fighting Obesity