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.
Avoiding nutritional causes of disease
Rates of childhood peanut allergies in the Western world have doubled in the last decade: the current rate is estimated...
Journal Club: Neuoscience, Physiology and Biochemistry
Reviews of journal articles covering topics of Neuoscience, Physiology and Biochemistry.
Renaissance woman: Kelly Weinersmith on science, outreach and family
Kelly Weinersmith recently completed her Ph.D. at UC Davis and is now a Huxley Fellow at Rice University in Houston...
Tumor immunology takes off
Tumors are not just solid masses of cancer cells. As those cancer cells grow and divide, they hijack all the...
‘One Size Doesn’t Fit All’: What precision medicine holds for our future
“Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes—and to...
Journal Club: Microbiology, Cell Biology, and Microbiology & Computational Biology
Reviews of journal articles covering topics of Microbiology, Cell Biology, and Microbiology & Computational Biology.
Interview with new Institute of Computational Health Sciences director Atul Butte
The following is an edited transcript of an interview with Dr. Atul Butte: Can you talk broadly about some of...
The Science of Food: The Safe GMO and the Un-boiled Egg
Humans have been developing genetically-modified organisms for millennia through the process of artificial selection—human-directed selective breeding—of plants and animals for...
SmartDerm Wants to Stop Bedsores Before They Start
Michael Hemati and Sachin Rangarajan, cofounders of SmartDerm, operate their medical device startup company from the Mission Bay QB3 garage...