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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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TZAPping Telomeres Shorter

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Lindsey Jones
Our DNA fits into our cells by tightly coiling into structures called chromosomes. During cell division, the machinery that is...
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Failure to Communicate Part 1: Words Can Never Hurt Me

February 3, 2017
Ben Mansky
The chair squeaked quietly as I fidgeted, swiveling left, right, left. I sat toward the back of a long wooden...
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Using the Body to Fight Cancer

January 23, 2017
Breanna Allen
In the fight against cancer, harnessing the natural defense mechanisms within the human body is gaining promise. Termed cancer immunotherapy...
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The Morning After: Science in a Trump Administration

January 16, 2017
The Science Policy Group
If you were to ride the D.C. metro the morning after the election, you would have been overwhelmed with a...
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Diet Against Disease

January 16, 2017
Breanna Allen
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are,” Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1826. What you consume...
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Increasing Brain Tumor Survival

December 19, 2016
Lindsey Jones
Nearly 73,000 adults will be diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2016, and for more than one third, their tumor...
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What is Science Policy?

December 15, 2016
The Science Policy Group
As a member of the Science Policy Group, people frequently ask me what science policy entails. This is a difficult...
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Finding the Fountain of Youth

December 12, 2016
Stephanie Holden
For thousands of years, explorers, adventurers, and conquerors have searched for the “fountain of youth,” a magical spring that grants...
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Solving the Mystery of Genomic 'Dark Matter'

November 6, 2016
Lindsey Jones
In human cells, three billion base pairs arrange themselves into sequences of As, Ts, Gs, and Cs to form genes...
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