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Have you ever felt your heart beat align with the kick? Or the hits make your eardrums tickle, the special fx give life to a film-like vignette?
April 22, 2025
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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...
Science
Oranges, syringe and ampule.

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

October 1, 2024
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[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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Frosty plants

This Date in UCSF History: Genetic Releases Fuel Controversy

May 14, 2024
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[Originally published in Synapse on May 15, 1986.] During the past few months, revelations of illegal or improper releases of...
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Toxoplasma gondii 

This Date in UCSF History: Parasitic Attraction

March 26, 2024
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[Originally published in Synapse on March 22, 2007.] Recent data suggests that latent infection with Toxoplasma gondii, commonly thought to...
Science
Monkeys in a lab wearing lab coats.

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...
Science
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...
Science
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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.
Science
Cordyceps infected insect

How Real Is ‘The Last of Us’? UCSF Fungus Expert Weighs In

May 2, 2023
Cindy Ow
The blockbuster HBO show, The Last of Us, uses an intriguing premise to explain the world’s post-apocalyptic setting: Ophiocordyceps unilateralis...
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