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Impact of fasting and calorie restriction on cancer cells

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‘Awe Walks’ Boost Emotional Well-Being. In a new study, published Sept

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‘AeroNabs’ – Inhalable Protection Against Covid-19

4 years ago ucsf.edu covid

Female Chromosomes Offer Resilience to Alzheimer’s: Women with Alzheimer’s live longer than men with the disease, and scientists now have evidence from research in both humans and mice that this is because they have genetic protection (due to the second X chromosome) from the ravages of the disease

4 years ago ucsf.edu disease genetics

We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus We Were Wrong

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Some supposedly inert ingredients in common drugs — such as dyes and preservatives — may potentially be biologically active and could lead to unanticipated side effects…

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Brain benefits of exercise can be gained with a single protein

4 years ago ucsf.edu brain

University of California, SF, just paid $1.14M in ransom

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Scientists have discovered that a mysterious group of neurons in the amygdala remain in an immature state throughout childhood, and mature rapidly during adolescence, but this expansion is absent in children with autism…

4 years ago ucsf.edu autism

Ketogenic Diets Alter Gut Microbiome in Humans, Mice - "Study suggests potential anti-inflammatory properties of ketone bodies via effects on gut microbial ecosystems"

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New COVID-19 ‘Citizen Science’ Initiative Lets Any Adult with a Smartphone Help to Fight Coronavirus UCSF Researchers Aim to Enroll One Million Individuals for Real-Time Epidemiology

4 years ago ucsf.edu coronavirus covid

Speech-disrupting brain disease reflects patients' native tongue

4 years ago ucsf.edu brain disease

Tech will soon give us precise control over our brains and genes

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Five Years After Abortion, Nearly All Women Say It Was the Right Decision

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‘Living Fossil’ May Upend Basic Tenet of Evolutionary Theory: Natural Selection’s Reach Extends Beyond Genome into Epigenome, Study Suggests

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Crispr-Resistant Viruses Build ‘Safe Rooms’ to Shield Genomes from Enzymes

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In a surprising finding using the standard animal model of Down syndrome, scientists reversed the intellectual deficits, generally thought of as irreversible, with drugs that target the body’s response to cellular stresses, suggesting it may be possible to do the same in humans with Down syndrome.

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After a decade of searching, the scientists who identified the only human gene known to promote “natural short sleep” — lifelong, nightly sleep that lasts just four to six hours yet leaves individuals feeling fully rested — have discovered a second.

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Scientists have shown for the first time that cooking food fundamentally alters the microbiomes of both mice & humans, a finding with implications both for optimizing our microbial health & for understanding how cooking may have altered the evolution of the our microbiomes during human prehistory .

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Doctors have successfully treated an infant with a rare childhood leukemia using a targeted therapy approved for adults with advanced liver and kidney cancer…

5 years ago ucsf.edu cancer

Researchers discovered a scorpion toxin that targets the “wasabi receptor” in nerve cells, responsible for the sinus-jolting sting of wasabi and tears with onions

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Alzheimer’s Disease Destroys Neurons that Keep Us Awake - Study Suggests Tau Tangles, Not Amyloid Plaques, Drive Daytime Napping That Precedes Dementia

5 years ago ucsf.edu disease

Scientists have discovered that a mysterious group of neurons in the amygdala remain in an immature state throughout childhood, and mature rapidly during adolescence, but this expansion is absent in children with autism…

5 years ago ucsf.edu autism

Alzheimer’s Disease Is a ‘Double-Prion Disorder,’ Study Shows

5 years ago ucsf.edu disease

Overall hospital stays remain steady after Colorado legalized cannabis, finds a new study, which also found fewer diagnoses of chronic pain after legalization, consistent with past evidence that cannabis can reduce chronic pain, even though there was an increase in car accidents.

5 years ago ucsf.edu cannabis

Synthetic Speech Generated from Brain Recordings

5 years ago ucsf.edu brain

Medicaid could save $2.6 billion within a year if just 1% of its recipients quit smoking, according to new research by UCSF.

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Cancer Exports Molecular ‘Saboteurs’ to Remotely Disarm Immune System: Cancer cells secrete PD-L1–packed exosomes that travel through the lymphatic system or bloodstream to lymph nodes, remotely disarming immune cells and preventing them from attacking tumors.

5 years ago ucsf.edu cancer

‘Virtual Pharmacology’ Advance Tackles Universe of Unknown Drugs

5 years ago ucsf.edu universe

Medicine CRISPR Gene Editing Makes Stem Cells ‘Invisible’ to Immune System

5 years ago ucsf.edu

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Impact of fasting and calorie restriction on cancer cells

‘Awe Walks’ Boost Emotional Well-Being. In a new study, published Sept

‘AeroNabs’ – Inhalable Protection Against Covid-19

We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus We Were Wrong

Some supposedly inert ingredients in common drugs — such as dyes and preservatives — may potentially be biologically active and could lead to unanticipated side effects…

Brain benefits of exercise can be gained with a single protein

University of California, SF, just paid $1.14M in ransom

Scientists have discovered that a mysterious group of neurons in the amygdala remain in an immature state throughout childhood, and mature rapidly during adolescence, but this expansion is absent in children with autism…

Ketogenic Diets Alter Gut Microbiome in Humans, Mice - "Study suggests potential anti-inflammatory properties of ketone bodies via effects on gut microbial ecosystems"

New COVID-19 ‘Citizen Science’ Initiative Lets Any Adult with a Smartphone Help to Fight Coronavirus UCSF Researchers Aim to Enroll One Million Individuals for Real-Time Epidemiology

Speech-disrupting brain disease reflects patients' native tongue

Tech will soon give us precise control over our brains and genes

Five Years After Abortion, Nearly All Women Say It Was the Right Decision

‘Living Fossil’ May Upend Basic Tenet of Evolutionary Theory: Natural Selection’s Reach Extends Beyond Genome into Epigenome, Study Suggests

Crispr-Resistant Viruses Build ‘Safe Rooms’ to Shield Genomes from Enzymes

In a surprising finding using the standard animal model of Down syndrome, scientists reversed the intellectual deficits, generally thought of as irreversible, with drugs that target the body’s response to cellular stresses, suggesting it may be possible to do the same in humans with Down syndrome.

After a decade of searching, the scientists who identified the only human gene known to promote “natural short sleep” — lifelong, nightly sleep that lasts just four to six hours yet leaves individuals feeling fully rested — have discovered a second.

Scientists have shown for the first time that cooking food fundamentally alters the microbiomes of both mice & humans, a finding with implications both for optimizing our microbial health & for understanding how cooking may have altered the evolution of the our microbiomes during human prehistory .

Doctors have successfully treated an infant with a rare childhood leukemia using a targeted therapy approved for adults with advanced liver and kidney cancer…

Researchers discovered a scorpion toxin that targets the “wasabi receptor” in nerve cells, responsible for the sinus-jolting sting of wasabi and tears with onions

Alzheimer’s Disease Destroys Neurons that Keep Us Awake - Study Suggests Tau Tangles, Not Amyloid Plaques, Drive Daytime Napping That Precedes Dementia

Scientists have discovered that a mysterious group of neurons in the amygdala remain in an immature state throughout childhood, and mature rapidly during adolescence, but this expansion is absent in children with autism…

Alzheimer’s Disease Is a ‘Double-Prion Disorder,’ Study Shows

Overall hospital stays remain steady after Colorado legalized cannabis, finds a new study, which also found fewer diagnoses of chronic pain after legalization, consistent with past evidence that cannabis can reduce chronic pain, even though there was an increase in car accidents.

Synthetic Speech Generated from Brain Recordings

Medicaid could save $2.6 billion within a year if just 1% of its recipients quit smoking, according to new research by UCSF.

Cancer Exports Molecular ‘Saboteurs’ to Remotely Disarm Immune System: Cancer cells secrete PD-L1–packed exosomes that travel through the lymphatic system or bloodstream to lymph nodes, remotely disarming immune cells and preventing them from attacking tumors.

‘Virtual Pharmacology’ Advance Tackles Universe of Unknown Drugs

Medicine CRISPR Gene Editing Makes Stem Cells ‘Invisible’ to Immune System