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A testing lab set up within eight days, teams focused on testing and treating COVID-19 in the Black and Latinx communities, and the launch of one of the largest testing studies in the nation – these are a few examples of how UC San…

The University of California, San Francisco, and Johns Hopkins University today expanded the UCSF-JHU Opioid Industry Documents Archive, adding one million pages of records from Insys Therapeutics – which manufactured and marketed the…

Researchers at UC San Francisco have engineered molecules that act like “cellular glue,” allowing them to direct in precise fashion how cells bond with each other. The discovery represents a major step toward building tissues and organs,…

During the holidays, kids often spend more time on screens, leaving parents to wonder: Is it causing harm? Possibly.For preteens, the odds of developing OCD over a two-year period increased by 15% for every hour they played video games…

UC San Francisco surgeons have performed the health system’s 20,000th solid organ transplant, making it just the third in the nation to reach that milestone. The surgery also marked UCSF Health’s first donation after circulatory death…

Scientists at UC San Francisco have engineered T-cells to produce a potent anti-cancer cytokine, but only when they encounter tumor cells. The immunotherapy eliminated melanoma and pancreatic cancer in mice without major side effects, and…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved the use of Teplizumab, a new, immunotherapy drug that has been shown to delay the onset of type 1 diabetes by at least two years. The drug is the first of its kind for patients…

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) launched the California Collaborative for Pandemic Recovery and Readiness Research (CPR3), a research initiative to investigate the effects of the pandemic on California communities and…

When the Golden State Warriors’ Steph Curry makes a free throw, his brain draws on motor memory. Now researchers at UC San Francisco have shown how this type of memory is consolidated during sleep, when the brain processes the day’s…

A fundamental challenge in drug development is the balance between optimizing a drug’s lock-and-key fit with its target and the drug’s ability to make its way across the cellular membrane and access that target. The search for…