ExRNA: Decoding Messages Between Cells
January 9, 2014
RNA has long been known to perform yeoman's duty on the intracellular assembly line, following genetic instructions to help guide protein production.
January 9, 2014
RNA has long been known to perform yeoman's duty on the intracellular assembly line, following genetic instructions to help guide protein production.
January 6, 2014
For three decades, Family House has offered a supportive home base for families whose children are being treated for cancer and other life-threatening illnesses at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.
December 18, 2013
What areas of research are heating up in 2014? How will patients access health care differently in the coming year?
December 17, 2013
Brain tumors known as low-grade gliomas can be treated with surgery, sometimes in combination with chemotherapy and/or radiation therapy, with some patients living for decades after treatment.
December 17, 2013
Some of the top scientific minds converged at UC San Francisco last week as part of a two-day celebration of the 2014 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.
December 5, 2013
UC San Francisco has been awarded a major federal grant to "transform and revolutionize" the treatment of prostate cancer, the second most common form of cancer among American men.
November 25, 2013
E-cigarettes have been widely promoted as a way for people to quit smoking conventional cigarettes.
November 21, 2013
A UC San Francisco investigator has won an eight-year grant from the National Cancer Institute for a major investigation into anal cancer, a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease largely concentrated among people with HIV.
November 20, 2013
The protein in cells that most often drives the development of cancers has eluded scientists' efforts to block it for three decades – until now.
November 15, 2013
What a pathologist looks for in a Pap test sample, but hopes not to find, are oddly shaped cells with abnormally large nuclei. The same is true for prostate and lung cancer biopsies. In fact, most cancer cells display distorted structures.
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