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This Date in UCSF History: The Alzheimer’s Puzzle

[Originally published in Synapse on September 17, 1998.] Research leading to treatments of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and HIV-associated dementia will be the focus of UCSF’s new Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, which was inaugurated with a symposium.
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mtDNA Recombination: O'Farrell Lab

October 23, 2015
Lauren Shields
Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell. These organelles support cellular functions through ATP production and have been implicated in...
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This month in DNA repair: the elephant and the prize

October 15, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Increases in body size and lifespan should theoretically make an animal more prone to DNA replication errors that can produce...
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The Parts of the Brain

October 14, 2015
Maxwell Coyle
Consider brains and computers. How are they similar? Both can perform complex, rational tasks. Both take inputs and make decisions...
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Tauopathies: A Neurodegenerative Disease

October 7, 2015
Lauren Shields
Tauopathies are a spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases defined by their cellular pathology. Their name refers to the protein tau which...
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Up and Down: Mars and DNA

October 2, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Water on Mars! And this time, it’s liquid! Salty water flows on Mars slopes – during “warm seasons” of above...
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Evolution in Action

September 30, 2015
Maxwell Coyle
In 2015, evolution is considered an older discovery, and perhaps seems dusty to a generation piqued by CRISPR gene editing...
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What Scientists Did This Summer

September 25, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
The breast, or mammary gland, is a unique organ: it’s the only one that develops predominantly after birth – during...
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Journal Club: Cancer Biology, Biochemistry & Cancer Biology, Infectious Disease and Immunology

May 28, 2015
Taylor LaFlam
Reviews of journal articles covering topics of Cancer Biology, Biochemistry & Cancer Biology, Infectious Disease, and Immunology.
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Biomedical Science is Awesome

May 28, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
As I sit at my lab bench, bent over an ice bucket cluttered with FACS tubes, trying to make some...
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