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Taming The Immune System: The Nobel-Winning Story of Regulatory T Cells

The immune system faces a paradox: it must recognize dangerous invaders while carefully sparing the body it protects. This is not an enviable job.

December 9, 2025

Nikhita Kirthivasan

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HVHA

April 22, 2025

Nick Fiorentino

Have you ever felt your heart beat align with the kick? Or the hits make your eardrums tickle, the special...

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This Date in UCSF History: Promising New Abortion Drug

December 3, 2024

Synapse

[Originally published in Synapse on Dec. 2, 1993.] Every year there are some four million unintended pregnancies in the United...

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This Date in UCSF History: Vitamin C a Cure for Addiction?

October 1, 2024

Synapse

[Originally published in Synapse on October 3, 1977.] For the past decade, vitamin C has been touted for the cure...

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Why Tattoos Stay Put

May 28, 2024

Julianne Riggs

After years of internal debate, I finally got my first tattoo. He’s a small lizard, with a topological map design...

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This Date in UCSF History: Genetic Releases Fuel Controversy

May 14, 2024

Synapse

[Originally published in Synapse on May 15, 1986.] During the past few months, revelations of illegal or improper releases of...

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This Date in UCSF History: Parasitic Attraction

March 26, 2024

Synapse

[Originally published in Synapse on March 22, 2007.] Recent data suggests that latent infection with Toxoplasma gondii, commonly thought to...

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Nudity and Clothing in Monkeys, Scientists and Vaccines: What it Reveals and What it Hides

January 16, 2024

Bri Matusovsky

Why is the Western scientist always clothed? What would happen if science was conducted, metaphorically, in the nude? Thinking through...

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Laura Persson talks in front of a screen.

Wormnado Takes UCSF Postdoc Slam 2023 by Storm

October 10, 2023

Cindy Ow

A riveting story told with humor and heart about the social behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans — affectionately known as worms...

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Brain Science Breakthrough

September 26, 2023

Nicole Koutsodendris

Every so often, new scientific discoveries can challenge established principles and change the way we think about the world.

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Taming The Immune System: The Nobel-Winning Story of Regulatory T Cells

HVHA

This Date in UCSF History: Promising New Abortion Drug

This Date in UCSF History: Vitamin C a Cure for Addiction?

Why Tattoos Stay Put

This Date in UCSF History: Genetic Releases Fuel Controversy

This Date in UCSF History: Parasitic Attraction

Nudity and Clothing in Monkeys, Scientists and Vaccines: What it Reveals and What it Hides

Wormnado Takes UCSF Postdoc Slam 2023 by Storm

Brain Science Breakthrough

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