This Date in UCSF History: Promising New Abortion Drug
[Originally published in Synapse on Dec. 2, 1993.] Every year there are some four million unintended pregnancies in the United States, approximately 1.6 million end in abortion.
This Date in UCSF History: Vitamin C a Cure for Addiction?
[Originally published in Synapse on October 3, 1977.] For the past decade, vitamin C has been touted for the cure...
Why Tattoos Stay Put
After years of internal debate, I finally got my first tattoo. He’s a small lizard, with a topological map design...
This Date in UCSF History: Genetic Releases Fuel Controversy
[Originally published in Synapse on May 15, 1986.] During the past few months, revelations of illegal or improper releases of...
This Date in UCSF History: Parasitic Attraction
[Originally published in Synapse on March 22, 2007.] Recent data suggests that latent infection with Toxoplasma gondii, commonly thought to...
Nudity and Clothing in Monkeys, Scientists and Vaccines: What it Reveals and What it Hides
Why is the Western scientist always clothed? What would happen if science was conducted, metaphorically, in the nude? Thinking through...
Wormnado Takes UCSF Postdoc Slam 2023 by Storm
A riveting story told with humor and heart about the social behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans — affectionately known as worms...
Brain Science Breakthrough
Every so often, new scientific discoveries can challenge established principles and change the way we think about the world.
How Real Is ‘The Last of Us’? UCSF Fungus Expert Weighs In
The blockbuster HBO show, The Last of Us, uses an intriguing premise to explain the world’s post-apocalyptic setting: Ophiocordyceps unilateralis...
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...