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Translating Form into Function: Scientists Figure out How an Enzyme Works by Knowing Its Atom-by-Ato
In the last 40 years, scientists have perfected ways to determine the knot-like structure of enzymes, but they've been stumped trying to translate the structure into an understanding of function — what the enzyme actually does in the body. This puzzle has hurt drug discovery, since many of the most successful drugs work by blocking enzyme action. Now, in an expedited article in <i>Nature</i>, researchers show that a solution to the puzzle is finally in sight.
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UCSF's Kriegstein Says Bush Veto Disappointing, but Field Advancing
Last Wednesday, President Bush issued his second veto of a bill that would have ended federal restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research. UCSF's Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Regeneration Medicine, says the move puts a strain on a field that is just finding its wings.
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UCSF Establishes Campuswide Occupational Health Service
Effective July 1, UCSF will integrate clinical services previously provided separately by the campus and medical center into a single clinical care delivery system.
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UCSF Unveils Strategic Plan to Guide Its Global Leadership in Advancing Health
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has finalized its first-ever campuswide strategic plan, a vision for the future with specific recommendations to guide its global leadership in health sciences.
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Silicon Valley's Mike Homer Teams up with UCSF Scientists for Fight of His Life
Mike Homer has been one of the leading forces in Silicon Valley for more than two decades. In May, he was diagnosed with the rare neurodegenerative disease Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, known as CJD. Now, the 49-year-old husband and father of three young children is fighting for his life, with the assistance of physicians at UCSF Medical Center.
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Campus Announces AIDS Walk Early Bird Prize Winners and T-Shirt Design Winner
Three members of the campus community are doing their part for UCSF's participation in AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 15.
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SFGH Cancer Patients to Perform Original Theater Piece
The Araceli Theater Project, which involves people who face tremendous challenges, will present three upcoming performances beginning Thursday.
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Grand Rounds to Focus on Radiation Research
The campus community is invited to hear Grand Rounds by Nils Cordes, MD, PhD, from the Center for Radiation Research in Oncology at Dresden University, on July 6.
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Cheung Wins Pediatrics' Grumbach Award
UCSF pediatric endocrinology fellow Clement Cheung has received the 2007 Melvin Grumbach Award for Pediatric Research.
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Dogs Guide Search for Genes in Panic and Anxiety
According to the US Census Bureau, more than one in three American households include at least one dog.
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UCSF Experts Mark the 26th Anniversary of AIDS
World-renowned AIDS researchers and physicians marked the 26th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS recently.
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Can Addiction Be Stopped? Banys Responds to Fields
Is alcoholism more than one disease? And does "recovery" actually work? Yes to both, says UCSF psychiatrist Peter Banys in his response to UCSF neuroscientist Howard Fields...
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UCSF receives $150 million pledge for cancer center
UCSF has received a $150 million pledge to support clinical and research programs of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center. It is the largest philanthropic commitment from an individual ever received by the University and was given anonymously.
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Physician to Share Insights from Recent Visit to Iran Today
The campus community is invited to hear Catherine Thomasson, national president of Physicians for Social Responsibility, who will report on her recent trip to Iran.
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UCSF to Host Discussion on Peaceful Solutions to World Problems
The campus community is invited to a lunchtime discussion with Dadi Janki, a revered spiritual leader and advocate for world peace, on June 29.
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UCSF School of Nursing Celebrates a Century of Excellence
More than 700 people gathered at the St. Francis Hotel on June 9 to commemorate a century of nursing excellence at UCSF.
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JAMA Study: Give Doctors Info on Most Widely Covered Medicare Drugs
While millions of elderly Americans are skipping medications because they can't afford them, a new study in the <em>Journal of the American Medical Association</em> offers a solution: Tell doctors upfront which drugs are most widely covered by Medicare so that patients can get their medications faster and more cheaply.
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UCSF's Kahn Discusses Universal Health Care, Michael Moore's Film Sicko
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Voigt Makes Synthetic Biology Come Alive
Genetic robots require a program and an agenda. Synthetic biologist Christopher Voigt supplies both...
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UCSF Researcher Tracks Genes that Predict Response to Antidepressants
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Comparison study shows U.S. low in primary care physician visits
The average American spends a total of about 30 minutes a year with a primary care physician in a system that is less comprehensive than that of Australia or New Zealand, according to a new study comparing primary care practice in the three countries.
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Centennial Video Celebrates 100 Years of the UCSF School of Nursing
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UCSF Opens Cartilage Repair and Regeneration Center
The treatment of cartilage injuries is one of the most difficult challenges facing orthopaedic surgeons. Clinicians and researchers at UCSF are combining forces to establish a multidisciplinary center to meet this challenge. "The UCSF Cartilage Repair and Regeneration Center is unlike any other in the region," says UCSF orthopaedic surgeon Hubert Kim, MD, PhD.
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Mother Mice Are More Attuned to Pup Sounds than Are Other Mice
<em>Christoph Schreiner, MD, PhD, professor and vice chair of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery and a member of the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience at UCSF, is senior author of a study reported in PLoS Biology on the way in which auditory neurons detect and discriminate vocalizations. Robert Liu, PhD, the first author of the study, began the work while a postdoctoral fellow in the Schreiner lab. He is now assistant professor of biology at Emory University.</em>
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MRI Is Key to Understanding Cartilage Health
Cartilage injury, repair and regrowth have long been mysterious processes. In part, this is because injured cartilage doesn't act like many other injured tissues; cartilage continues to decline in function well after trauma, and is very slow to heal.
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UCSF's Gaffney to be Grand Marshal in San Francisco Pride Parade
Thanks in part to the tremendous support from the campus community, UCSF's own Stuart Gaffney and his partner, John Lewis, will be the Community Grand Marshals in the 37th Annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade.
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New Species of Bacteria Discovered at UCSF
NPR's <em>All Things Considered</em> reports that "[a] new species of bacteria has been discovered, thanks to an American tourist who caught it while traveling in Peru. Dr. Jane Koehler, an infectious-disease specialist who led the team that found the species, named it <em>Bartonella rochalimae</em>, after a long-dead Brazilian scientist." NPR's Rebecca Roberts speaks with Koelher about the discovery of the bacterium, and why that particular name was selected for it.
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Vet Disability System Needs Overhaul, Report Says
Modern weapons, like IEDs, or improvised explosive devices, have left many soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan with debilitating injuries, while advances in trauma care have ensured their survival and return home to cope with those unique injuries, relying on a VA system that is antiquated and can't support their physical and emotional needs, according to a report released Thursday by the Institute of Medicine.
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UCSF Academic Senate Names 2007-2009 Officers
Longtime faculty member David Gardner, Mount Zion Health Plan Distinguished Professor of Medicine, is the new chair of the Academic Senate at UCSF.