Gift Launches New UCSF Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine
UCSF researchers aim to radically rethink the role of the microbiome in early life and develop new interventions aimed at preventing childhood diseases.
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Marc and Lynne Benioff Donate $35M to UCSF, Stanford to Advance Microbiome Science
The gifts will launch new research initiatives on their respective campuses to leverage the growing science of the human microbiome.
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UCSF Names Pediatrics Chair, Physician-in-Chief for Benioff Children’s Hospitals
Raphael Hirsch comes to UCSF from the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, where he served as chair of the Stead Family Department of Pediatrics.
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Alzheimer’s Disease Destroys Neurons that Keep Us Awake
UCSF scientists show that Alzheimer’s disease directly attacks brain regions responsible for wakefulness during the day.
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Is Your Sleep Cycle Out of Sync? It May Be Genetic
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UC Faculty Demands Elsevier Restart Negotiations
A group of prominent University of California faculty say they will step away from the editorial boards of scientific journals published by Elsevier until the publishing giant agrees to restart negotiations.
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Genome Study Reveals Clues to Komodo Dragon’s Unique Abilities
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Half of San Francisco’s homeless population is 50-years-old or older, UCSF initiative shows
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AI4ALL Introduces Young Women to Data Science
Eighteen high school students, all young women, took part in the first cohort of UCSF AI4ALL, a program to promote greater diversity and inclusion in the field of Artificial Intelligence with a focus on applications to biomedicine.
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Why World Breastfeeding Week is so important
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UCSF doctor reconstructs face of SoCal beauty queen paralyzed by stroke
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Most Seniors with Dementia Live at Home, Despite Pain, Anxiety, Poor Health
Study has revealed that seniors with dementia living at home may endure more pain and have more complex or unaddressed medical needs than their counterparts in nursing homes.
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Extreme Early Birds Are More Common Than Previously Believed
Advanced sleep phase that lures people to sleep at 8 p.m., enabling them to wake up as early as 4 a.m — previously believed to be very rare — may affect at least one in 300 adults.
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UCSF Focuses on Developing Managers in Response to Staff Engagement Survey
UCSF is working on multiple fronts in efforts to continue improving staff engagement in its quest to be a great place to work.
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UCSF Launches Mission Bay Traffic Alert Website
A new website will help the UCSF community proactively plan their commute and navigate the increased traffic congestion in Mission Bay.
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Confused About Sunscreen Ingredients? Here's What We've Learned
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UCSF Names Corey Jackson as Chief Human Resources Officer
Jackson will join the leadership teams for both the campus and UCSF Health organizations providing people management expertise working with campus, Health and UC-wide colleagues, as well as with the University of California Office of the President.
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Team IDs Spoken Words and Phrases in Real Time from Brain’s Speech Signals
UCSF scientists have for the first time decoded spoken words and phrases in real time from the brain signals that control speech.
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Unraveling the Ethics of New Neurotechnologies
Since 2017, UCSF researchers Winston Chiong and Eddie Chang have led a collaborative neuroethics research project funded by the NIH.
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UCSF Medical Center Ranks Among Top US Hospitals for 2019-2020
For the 21st year, UCSF Health has been listed among the top 10 hospitals nationwide in the prestigious U.S. News & World Report’s Best Hospitals survey.
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Scientists Can Finally Build Feedback Circuits in Cells
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The keto moment
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Why More Pregnant Women Are Having Scans
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‘Limitless Potential’ of Artificial Protein Ushers in New Era of ‘Smart’ Cell Therapies
Researchers devised “smart” cells that behave like tiny autonomous robots which may be used to detect damage and disease, and deliver help at just the right time and in just the right amount.
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Latitude Food Allergy Care and UCSF Health Form Strategic Alliance
UCSF Benioff Children’s Physicians foundation signed a partnership agreement with Latitude Food Allergy Care to expand access to medical care for children with food allergies and provide an important referral option for clinicians whose patients require specialty food-allergy care.
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Worrisome Increase in Some Medical Scans During Pregnancy
Use of medical imaging during pregnancy increased significantly in the United States, with nearly a four-fold rise over the last two decades in the number of women undergoing CT scans.
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Allergy, Asthma Risk Are Increased by Microbial Compound in Infant Gut
A study of newborn infants has identified a compound produced by gut bacteria that appears to predispose certain infants to allergies and asthma later in life.
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Zachary Knight Receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Knight, an associate professor in the Department of Physiology, investigates how the brain senses the needs of the body and then generates specific behaviors to restore physiologic balance – sometimes in surprising ways.
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Hollywood and the Matter-of-Fact Abortion
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What a doctor wishes patients knew about the end