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Most animals require brains to run, jump or hop. The single-celled protozoan Euplotes eurystomus, however, achieves a scurrying walk using a simple, mechanical computer to coordinate its microscopic legs, UC San Francisco researchers…

First Lady Jill Biden, PhD, met with top UC San Francisco cancer leaders during a visit Friday to hear about UCSF’s breast cancer research and progress on the National Cancer Moonshot. The visit was timed to mark Breast Cancer Awareness…

American voters overwhelmingly say they want government and industry to ensure the products they buy are free of harmful chemicals, and they are willing to pay more for it, according to a national online survey commissioned by the Program…

We’ve heard about brain fog, fatigue and headache as symptoms of long COVID. Now a new study points to another persistent effect of SARS-CoV-2, identified months after infection: reduced exercise capacity.In their study in JAMA Network on…

UC San Francisco’s plans to build a new state-of-the-art research and academic building and rejuvenate the Parnassus Heights campus as more welcoming to the community continues to build momentum.On Sept. 22, 2022, the University of…

Scientists have designed compounds that hit the same key receptor that LSD activates without causing hallucinations. A single dose produced powerful antidepressant and antianxiety effects in mice that lasted up to two weeks.The study,…

New solutions for improving and managing cardiovascular health are urgently needed, but effective and worthwhile solutions often fail to make it to patients because all critical stakeholders are not involved at the right phase of the…

When the judges finished their deliberations at UC San Francisco’s 5th Annual Postdoc Slam competition on September 21, 2022, UCSF postdoc Elise Marsan, PhD, took first place for her cell-scale crime story, “Who Killed the Neurons?” In…

With a new study, UC San Francisco researchers are the first to show how blood vessel cells develop in the prenatal human brain, paving the way to fully understand the role of these cells in healthy brain development and disease.Recent…

Using equations to calculate kidney function that do not include race adjustments would result in Black patients gaining time on the transplant waitlist before their kidneys fail that matched similar durations for white patients,…