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: Organ Transplants at UCSF Rank Among Nation's Best
[Originally published in Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper, March 13, 2008] Imagine the unthinkable: you or a loved one...
Advancing Cancer Care
Predicting how cancer patients will respond to treatments has been a major challenge in the field of oncology, but a...
Meat the Future
As humanity’s population swells, the environmental conservation movement in the 21st century is increasingly dependent on our ability to develop...
'Anxiety Cells' Identified in the Brain
Have you ever stood in a high place and felt the instinctive drive to step back and find safety? Researchers...
Researchers Invent Reversible 'Off-Switch' for Cellular Proteins
UC San Francisco scientists have invented a technique that lets them precisely and reversibly disrupt the action of specific cellular...
This Date in UCSF History: UC Confirms Cell Behavior
[Originally published in Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper, Jan. 16, 1959] Important new evidence on how the nuclei of...
Saving Your Skin
In 2015, a seven-year old boy in Germany lost 60% of his skin due to a genetic disorder. Miraculously, after...
The Future of Scientific Publishing is 'Open'
Have you ever stopped and wondered how much it costs UCSF each year for all those articles you read? The...
The Darkness Within
The universe, we are told by astronomers, is made up mostly of dark matter. The normal matter that every one...