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 ...

Researchers at UC San Francisco and Imperial College London have shown that a single dose of psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in magic mushrooms, causes likely anatomical brain changes that ...

GLP-1s have shaken up treatment for weight loss with close to 1 in 5 Americans saying they have taken them at some point. Recently, experts shifted attention to the drugs’ effects on the brain. They ...

Ted W. Love, MD, and Joyce Y. Love have given $2.5 million to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals to expand care for patients with sickle cell disease, a genetic condition that can cause severe pain, ...

UCSF Health has been recognized by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the nation’s top places to work in health care for 2026, citing its employee recognition programs, comprehensive benefits, and ...

Colorectal cancer patient Megan McNair speaks with oncologist Katherine Van Loon, MD (left), while receiving an infusion at UCSF. Photo by Noah Berger Megan McNair, aged 29, had just given birth to ...

Scientists have known for more than a century that a single-celled organism with no nerve cells — much less a brain — can behave in ways that resemble learning. But those observations only went so far ...