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Ten young children born without functioning immune systems and lacking the ability to fight infections are on track for healthier lives thanks to a new gene therapy treatment pioneered at UC San Francisco, reports a Dec. 22 study in the…

When Hataalii Tiisyatonii Begay was born on April 7, 2018, his family members rejoiced in the hospital in Tuba City, Ariz., and on the remote Navajo Nation reservation where they lived. With his shock of black hair and shining black eyes,…

Glioblastomas (GBMs) are incurable brain tumors with a prognosis of about one-and-a half years on average. They are highly resistant to treatment and have defied all attempts at precision therapy.In their study publishing December 20 in…

Patients with COVID-19, who also had post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), were more likely to die or be hospitalized than those without a psychiatric disorder. And for patients with other mental illnesses, the risks were substantially…

A low-cost, prenatal intervention benefits mothers’ mental health up to eight years later, a new UC San Francisco study finds.In the study, one of the first to look at outcomes so far into the future, pregnant women who participated in a…

Thirty-five UC San Francisco researchers rank in the top 1 percent for impact in their fields, according to a new analysis of research citations by science and intellectual property company Clarivate.The 2022 Highly Cited Researchers list…

Ascending thoracic aortic disease is an important cause of sudden death in the U.S., yet most aortic aneurysms are identified incidentally. To improve assessment of patients who may be at risk for aortic dissection and rupture,…

Does stress during pregnancy impact children’s cell aging, and does race matter? The answer is yes, according to a new UC San Francisco study published Dec. 2 in Psychological Medicine.UCSF researchers followed 110 white and 112 Black…

A third of American women of reproductive age now face excessive travel times to obtain an abortion, according to a new geospatial analysis by researchers in San Francisco and Boston that is one of the first to model the effects of the…

The Northern California Institute for Research and Education, which partners with UC San Francisco and the San Francisco VA Medical Center, has been awarded a five-year, $147 million grant that will expand diversity among Alzheimer’s…