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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 .

5 years ago ucsf.edu

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

6 years ago ucsf.edu

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

6 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…

6 years ago ucsf.edu autism

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

6 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.

6 years ago ucsf.edu cannabis

Synthetic Speech Generated from Brain Recordings

6 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.

6 years ago ucsf.edu

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.

6 years ago ucsf.edu cancer