This month in DNA repair: the elephant and the prize
Increases in body size and lifespan should theoretically make an animal more prone to DNA replication errors that can produce...
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The Parts of the Brain
Consider brains and computers. How are they similar? Both can perform complex, rational tasks. Both take inputs and make decisions...
Throwback Thursday: Revolutions Old and New
Fifty years ago in 1965, a headline on the front page of Synapse read, “Revolution, Response: Viet Program Here.” On...
Tauopathies: A Neurodegenerative Disease
Tauopathies are a spectrum of neurodegenerative diseases defined by their cellular pathology. Their name refers to the protein tau which...
Up and Down: Mars and DNA
Water on Mars! And this time, it’s liquid! Salty water flows on Mars slopes – during “warm seasons” of above...
Evolution in Action
In 2015, evolution is considered an older discovery, and perhaps seems dusty to a generation piqued by CRISPR gene editing...
What Scientists Did This Summer
The breast, or mammary gland, is a unique organ: it’s the only one that develops predominantly after birth – during...
Throwback Thursday: Women across UCSF History
On this day in 1987, Dr. Dorothy Ford Bainton became the UCSF School of Medicine's first woman chair of the...
Journal Club: Cancer Biology, Biochemistry & Cancer Biology, Infectious Disease and Immunology
Reviews of journal articles covering topics of Cancer Biology, Biochemistry & Cancer Biology, Infectious Disease, and Immunology.
Synapse: May 24, 1990
The Synapse issue that came out 25 years captured an exciting time in UCSF history. The front page was crowded...
Biomedical Science is Awesome
As I sit at my lab bench, bent over an ice bucket cluttered with FACS tubes, trying to make some...
Journal Club: Physiology, Developmental & Evolutionary Biology, Immunology and Microbiology
Reviews of journal articles covering topics of Physiology, Developmental & Evolutionary Biology, Immunology, and Microbiology.
Tomorrowland is Around the Corner
Fabulous innovation is all around us. A typical day in 2015 would be so fundamentally unrecognizable to someone in 2000...
Synapse: May 8, 1975
Four decades ago, the Synapse front page captured the discontent that would lead to this cap, which was just one...
Humans of UCSF: Ava Arshadi
“36 years ago, my family escaped Iran in the midst of a revolution that increasingly deprived followers of their religion...