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.
Up and Down: Mars and DNA
Water on Mars! And this time, it’s liquid! Salty water flows on Mars slopes – during “warm seasons” of above...
Evolution in Action
In 2015, evolution is considered an older discovery, and perhaps seems dusty to a generation piqued by CRISPR gene editing...
What Scientists Did This Summer
The breast, or mammary gland, is a unique organ: it’s the only one that develops predominantly after birth – during...
Journal Club: Cancer Biology, Biochemistry & Cancer Biology, Infectious Disease and Immunology
Reviews of journal articles covering topics of Cancer Biology, Biochemistry & Cancer Biology, Infectious Disease, and Immunology.
Biomedical Science is Awesome
As I sit at my lab bench, bent over an ice bucket cluttered with FACS tubes, trying to make some...
Journal Club: Physiology, Developmental & Evolutionary Biology, Immunology and Microbiology
Reviews of journal articles covering topics of Physiology, Developmental & Evolutionary Biology, Immunology, and Microbiology.
Tomorrowland is Around the Corner
Fabulous innovation is all around us. A typical day in 2015 would be so fundamentally unrecognizable to someone in 2000...
Journal Club: Structural Biology, Genetics & Autoimmunity, Cancer Biology, and Neuroscience
Reviews of journal articles covering topics of Structural Biology, Genetics & Autoimmunity, Cancer Biology, and Neuroscience.
The Science of Wine
I don’t know all the science behind winemaking. But my favorite Sonoma winemaker, ex-professor of particle physics Dr. Chris Loxton...