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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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Genome Editing Opens Brave New World

March 7, 2016
Nerissa Hoglen
From Brave New World to Gattaca, the repercussions of gaining genetic control over people’s traits has constantly preoccupied science fiction...
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The Chess Game of Chemotherapy Resistance

March 2, 2016
Maxwell Coyle
The fight against cancer is a fight against a living thing, with its own intelligence. Our bodies are smarter than...
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The Next Generation in Cancer Immunotherapy

February 26, 2016
Lauren Shields
Scientists and clinicians have developed and used immune-based therapies, or more simply immunotherapies, to attack cancer in multiple ways. Immunotherapies...
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How the brain forms

February 17, 2016
Lauren Shields
The human brain can process a picture in just 13 milliseconds. The cellular functions underlying this incredible processing speed involve...
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Understanding Immune Tolerance

February 3, 2016
Lauren Shields
The immune system surveys the body by sampling proteins, called antigens, from both the human host and any invaders. So...
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Hacking Cells to Prevent Obesity

January 27, 2016
Maxwell Coyle
Your fat is alive. Your fat is alive and it is talking. It is listening. It is reading its DNA...
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When the Immune System Attacks

January 20, 2016
Lauren Shields
While our immune system functions to protect us from such things as invading microbes, these same defenses can also erroneously...
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A Messenger of Pain

January 13, 2016
Maxwell Coyle
This past weekend I sliced my finger while attempting to slice a carrot. The Wusthof cut through the nail on...
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Emphasize Sex in Research, orders National Institutes of Health

December 16, 2015
Lauren Shields
Reproducibility in biological research — or more specifically the lack of it — is an ongoing issue. While experiments may...
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