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Preventing Disease Through Social Media: UCSF Doctor Gets Creative with Health Interventions

Smartphones and emotional crises, social media and tanning beds are seemingly disconnected – but UC San Francisco researcher Eleni Linos, MD, DrPH, has started to make an impact on health by her focus on how technology can influence our behaviors. Watch Dreamforce Talk Eleni Linos, MD, DrPH, will be

UCSF at Dreamforce 2017: Precision Cancer Care and Public Health Tech

One of UC San Francisco’s groundbreaking cancer programs will be prominently featured at the 2017 Dreamforce conference through an interactive exposition and a talk by two researchers. UCSF at Dreamforce “Tech and Health: Connection as Cure” (live stream) Monday, Nov. 6 9:30 a.m.-10 a.m. Featuring

Survivors of Childhood Leukemia with Down Syndrome Have Unique Health Risks, Benefits

Doctors have long recognized that children with Down syndrome are significantly more susceptible to leukemia, and have believed that they also were at higher risk of treatment-related chronic conditions. Now, new research led by UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco, with data from the

Diverse Drug-Resistant Cancer Cells Share a Hidden Weakness

UC San Francisco researchers have discovered a gene vulnerability that could let oncologists wipe out drug-resistant cancers across many different cancer types. The findings, published in Nature on November 1, 2017, suggest a promising new approach to preventing cancer recurrence, if they can be

UCSF Launches Landmark $5B Fundraising Campaign to Solve the Most Complex Human Health Problems

UC San Francisco on Friday launched one of the largest fundraising efforts ever set by a U.S. university, a $5 billion campaign aimed at tackling the most complex biomedical questions of our day and working more broadly to improve the quality of people’s health over their lifetimes. Rising health

Public-Private Consortium Aims to Cut Preclinical Cancer Drug Discovery from Six Years to Just One

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, GSK, and University of California San Francisco will combine vast data stores, supercomputing, and scientific expertise to reinvent discovery process for cancer medicines SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 27, 2017 --

UCSF's Cryo-Electron Microscopy Advancements Bring Atomic-Level Life into Clearer View

UC San Francisco researchers recently captured exquisite images of a protein caught in the act of binding to a novel therapeutic drug with enough resolution to model how the individual atoms of the protein and drug lined up. Until recently, such a feat would have been considered impossible, but in