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Cancer starts with mutations in a cell’s DNA, but new UC San Francisco research shows that the endurance of a tumor relies on its ability to rapidly evolve and adapt to challenges brought about by the environment in which it grows. “A major obstacle cancer cells must overcome is their incessant need

Allan Balmain, PhD, FRS has been named to the 2021 class of fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Academy. Dr. Balmain holds the Barbara Bass Bakar Distinguished Professorship in Cancer Genetics at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (HDFCCC). Allan

3D printing technology has been around for about 40 years. In medicine, we have seen rapid expansion across almost every subspecialty from pre-surgical planning to production of patient-specific surgical devices to simulation and training. However, there is a notable lack of literature on the

The Computational Cancer Community (C3) was recently created to provide a forum for labs focused on cancer genomics and computational cancer biology and oncology to share their work and to get feedback and input. Below, steering committee member Franklin Huang, MD, PhD, offers further details about

As obesity becomes a growing issue worldwide – nearly tripling over the last-half century – scientists are trying to gain a better understanding of the condition at the molecular level. Now, new research led by UC San Francisco scientists suggests that a single protein could play an outsized role in