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Cells Called Astrocytes Can Independently Promote Longer or Deeper Sleep in Mice, a New Study Shows By Lindzi Wessel For something we spend one-third of our lives doing, we still understand remarkably little about how sleep works – for...

Obesity, Hypertension, High Glucose in Early Adulthood May Take Heavy Toll on Cognition in Late Life, UCSF-Led Study Shows By Suzanne Leigh As mounting evidence points to the link between cardiovascular disease and dementia, a new study...

By Laura Kurtzman Scientists at UC San Francisco have detected 109 chemicals in a study of pregnant women, including 55 chemicals never before reported in people and 42 “mystery chemicals,” whose sources and uses are unknown. The chemicals...

By Nina Bai The Johnson & Johnson one-dose vaccine received FDA authorization on Feb. 27. Photo by Maurice Ramirez Editor's Note: This story was updated May 7 to include new information on the risk of blood clots. With the FDA’s...

By Jen A. Miller There is a big, global problem: viruses such as HIV and COVID-19 mutate, but treatments for them don’t. For more than 20 years, Leor Weinberger , PhD, has been thinking about how to make vaccines work more efficiently by...

What enabled us to develop COVID-19 vaccines with such speed? How should we best prepare for future outbreaks? Has the pandemic forever changed how science is done? On March 9, UC San Francisco gathered leading Bay Area scientists and...

Could Emotional Wellbeing, Good Sleep Promote a Lasting Antibody Response? By Brandon R. Reynolds The rapid development of COVID-19 vaccines with impressively high effectiveness offers hope that the pandemic will someday soon be under...

To Our Bay Area Community, There has been an alarming increase in assaults against the Asian American and Pacific Islander communities, and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) strongly condemns these racially motivated...

By Susan Godstone, Silver Lumsdaine, and Arezu Sarvestani As UC San Francisco honors Black History Month this February, it is with an awareness that we are at an inflection point in history. Institutions cannot ignore the structural racism...

what-covid-does-to-the-heart.jpg what-covid-does-to-the-heart.jpg The disease may damage cardiac muscle even in those who never displayed symptoms. By Allison Bond, MD UCSF Magazine Winter 2021 Cardiologist Nisha Parikh, MD, MPH ,...