UCSF and UC Berkeley have launched a joint program to develop the frontier of AI in biomedicine and accelerate advances in ...

UCSF scientists discovered that a small change to a SARS-CoV-2 protein dictates whether the virus lives quietly in bats or ...

A UCSF study followed Black kidney donors to see if they faced elevated risks for low kidney function, and found that many ...

Alcohol use disorder is a major cause of disease and premature death worldwide. For people with chronic liver disease (CLD), there is no safe level of alcohol consumption. Yet many patients with this ...

Congenital heart disease is a condition primarily associated with infants and children, but that is changing. More adults than children now live with congenital heart disease (ACHD) in the U.S., an ...

Can We Solve the Mystery Behind Cleft Lip and Palate in Infants?

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland is enrolling patients in an innovative clinical trial that seeks to cure sickle cell disease. The trial is the first in the U.S. to apply non-viral CRISPR-Cas9 ...

How does origami-like DNA affect brain development? How do cancer-immune cell interactions prevent immune cell activity in tumors? Two breakthrough discoveries by UC San Francisco scientists answer ...

June 5, 2021, marks 40 years since the first reported cases of what would eventually become known as AIDS. The commitment of UCSF, the city, and the community in addressing the AIDS epidemic ...