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2009 climate change summit panel.

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This Date in UCSF History

This Date in UCSF History: New Studies Stress the Seriousness of Climate Change

[Originally reported in Synapse on March 20, 2009.] Two reports issued in February underlined the growing menace of climate change and the need for urgent action to combat it.
March 28, 2023
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Diet Against Disease

January 16, 2017
Breanna Allen
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are,” Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1826.What you consume not...
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Increasing Brain Tumor Survival

December 19, 2016
Lindsey Jones
Nearly 73,000 adults will be diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2016, and for more than one third, their tumor...
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What is Science Policy?

December 15, 2016
The Science Policy Group
As a member of the Science Policy Group, people frequently ask me what science policy entails. This is a difficult...
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Finding the Fountain of Youth

December 12, 2016
Stephanie Holden
For thousands of years, explorers, adventurers, and conquerors have searched for the “fountain of youth,” a magical spring that grants...
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Solving the Mystery of Genomic 'Dark Matter'

November 6, 2016
Lindsey Jones
In human cells, three billion base pairs arrange themselves into sequences of As, Ts, Gs, and Cs to form genes...
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End of Zika in Sight?

October 24, 2016
Lindsey Jones
With the successful creation of DNA vaccines that elicited immune protection from Zika infection, hope is on the rise in...
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Suffering from Slow Science Publishing

May 23, 2016
Lindsay Osso
Information is instant. I remember the moment when this fact of the digital age was made unequivocally clear to me...
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Would You Rather?

May 18, 2016
Maxwell Coyle
“Would you rather live forever or die in the next five seconds?” This question was posed to me recently and...
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God’s Imperfect Red Pencil

May 5, 2016
Maxwell Coyle
From the perspective of noise, CRISPR systems are modern biology’s closest approximation to Beyonce’s Lemonade or Game of Thrones: buzz-worthy...
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