UCSF researchers are using tiny "mini-organs" to model disease, personalize treatment, and understand human development. They ...
UCSF and UC Berkeley have launched a joint program to develop the frontier of AI in biomedicine and accelerate advances in ...
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 ...
UCSF scientists discovered that a small change to a SARS-CoV-2 protein dictates whether the virus lives quietly in bats or ...
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 ...
Until the early 2000s, we believed that dementia was the price we paid if we lost the genetic lottery, assuming we live long enough. Today, the scientific evidence suggests that circumstances we can ...
Roarke Kamber, PhD, an assistant professor in the Anatomy department at UC San Francisco, has been named a 2026 Pew-Stewart Scholar, an award that supports early-career scientists who pursue ...
UC San Francisco researchers have developed a new form of deep brain stimulation (DBS) that adjusts in real time as a person walks, helping to improve gait and reduce falls in people with Parkinson’s ...