Longtime UCSF employee and dedicated friend and family man Marcellus Martin died on Oct. 24, 2005.

The Department of Laboratory Medicine in the UCSF School of Medicine recently received a $10 million research grant to explore causes of transfusion-related deaths.

Using harmless genetically engineered E. coli bacteria instead of photo paper, students at UCSF and the University of Texas at Austin have created the first-ever living bacterial photographs.

The AIDS Research Institute (ARI) at UCSF invites the campus community to attend a World AIDS Day symposium on Thursday, Dec. 1.

The UC Board of Regents on Wednesday adopted a 2006-07 budget proposal that includes funding for an average 4 percent increase in employee compensation next fiscal year, subject to collective bargaining requirements.

QB3 -- one of four California Institutes for Science and Innovation (CISI) -- will celebrate the opening of its new headquarters at UCSF Mission Bay at a special event on November 28.

Literally hundreds of faculty, staff, students, neighbors and others descended upon UCSF Mission Bay on October 28 to celebrate the creation of a new community for life.

Soaringwords, an organization that runs a number of programs for sick kids, recently spread a little bit of sunshine to patients at UCSF Children's Hospital.

This Friday's issue of Newsbreak will be one of the last issues of the biweekly publication, which will convert to an eight-page quarterly next year.