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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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May I have a peek? Reuse of publicly available biomedical data is increasing and producing some great successes

April 2, 2015
Megan Laurance
Evolving scientific culture and policy are directing more and more biomedical data into public data repositories. A number of the...
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Journal Club: Cell Biology, Stem Cell Biology, Cell Biology, and Respiratory Pathology

March 18, 2015
Taylor LaFlam
Reviews of journal articles covering topics of Cell Biology, Stem Cell Biology, Cell Biology, and Respiratory Pathology.
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The Future of Health: Gizmos and Gadgets Edition

March 18, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Wearable technology, implantable nano-devices, 3D-printed organs and drones are all slowly but surely bringing us to the fabulous science fiction...
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KNOX Medical Diagnostics Wants to Let Patients Test Their Lungs at Home

March 18, 2015
Yarrow Madrona
The explosion of smart phones over the last decade has paved the way for an industry of personalized and portable...
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Avoiding nutritional causes of disease

March 5, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Rates of childhood peanut allergies in the Western world have doubled in the last decade: the current rate is estimated...
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Journal Club: Neuoscience, Physiology and Biochemistry

March 5, 2015
Taylor LaFlam
Reviews of journal articles covering topics of Neuoscience, Physiology and Biochemistry.
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Renaissance woman: Kelly Weinersmith on science, outreach and family

March 5, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Kelly Weinersmith recently completed her Ph.D. at UC Davis and is now a Huxley Fellow at Rice University in Houston...
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Tumor immunology takes off

February 20, 2015
Hanna Starobinets
Tumors are not just solid masses of cancer cells. As those cancer cells grow and divide, they hijack all the...
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‘One Size Doesn’t Fit All’: What precision medicine holds for our future

February 18, 2015
Aaron Dolor
“Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes—and to...
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