• We thought it was just a respiratory virus https://www.ucsf.edu/magazine/covid-body 150 comments 28/7/2020
• Industry pushes sugary products, while obfuscating the health hazards https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412916/sugars-sick-secrets-how-industry-forces-have-manipulated-science-downplay-harm 123 comments 26/12/2018
• Consumption of ‘Longevity’ Vitamins Could Prolong Healthy Aging, Scientist Says https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/10/412016/perspective-adequate-consumption-longevity-vitamins-could-prolong-healthy-aging 42 comments 18/10/2018

• Child-Parent Therapy Has Biological Benefits for Traumatized Kids | UCSF study is the first to show Child-Parent Psychotherapy may slow down biological aging in children who have experienced trauma. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/06/427976/treating-trauma-in-young-kids-may-ward-off-adulthood-disease 2 comments 15/8/2024 science
• Scientists may have found how to diagnose Elusive Neuro Disorder which usually goes undiagnosed until after a patient dies | The discovery of a unique pattern of proteins in the spinal fluid of patients may help with earlier diagnosis and new treatments for progressive supranuclear palsy. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2024/07/427996/scientists-may-have-found-how-diagnose-elusive-neuro-disorder 3 comments 5/7/2024 science
• How Artificial Intelligence Gave a Paralyzed Woman Her Voice Back https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2023/08/425986/how-artificial-intelligence-gave-paralyzed-woman-her-voice-back 8 comments 23/8/2023 upliftingnews
• Reprogramming the Brain’s Cleaning Crew to Mop Up Alzheimer’s Disease Scientists pinpointed genes that effect the cell's ability to survive and proliferate, how actively a cell produces inflammatory substances, and how aggressively a cell prunes synapses. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2022/08/423446/reprogramming-brains-cleaning-crew-mop-alzheimers-disease 5 comments 15/8/2022 science
• Playing Virtual Reality Video Game May Boost Seniors’ Memory https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/03/420096/playing-virtual-reality-video-game-may-boost-seniors-memory 5 comments 7/10/2021 science
• Researchers at UC San Francisco have successfully developed a "speech neuroprosthesis" that has enabled a man with severe paralysis to communicate in sentences, translating signals from his brain to the vocal tract directly into words that appear as text on a screen. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/07/420946/neuroprosthesis-restores-words-man-paralysis 11 comments 15/7/2021 science
• Personalized Brain Stimulation Alleviates Severe Depression Symptoms https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/01/419616/personalized-brain-stimulation-alleviates-severe-depression-symptoms 4 comments 18/1/2021 science
• Forest Fires, Cars, Power Plants, Factors for Alzheimer’s Disease. The study provides additional evidence to a growing and convergent literature, ranging from animal models to epidemiological studies, that suggests air pollution is a significant risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease and dementia https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/11/419141/forest-fires-cars-power-plants-join-list-risk-factors-alzheimers-disease#:~:text=a%20new%20study%20led%20by,a%20hallmark%20of%20alzheimer's%20disease. 4 comments 5/12/2020 science
• Just a few doses of an experimental drug can reverse age-related declines in memory and mental flexibility in mice. The drug, called ISRIB, has already been shown in laboratory studies to restore memory function months after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and even enhance cognition in healthy animals. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/12/419201/drug-reverses-age-related-mental-decline-within-days 58 comments 2/12/2020 science
• Children with dyslexia show stronger emotional responses. Results broaden current conceptualizations of typical dyslexia and suggest the syndrome is more complex than just a weakness in reading skills, adding support to the awareness that dyslexia is associated with hidden interpersonal strengths. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/11/419186/children-dyslexia-show-stronger-emotional-responses 28 comments 2/12/2020 science
• Researchers engineered a completely synthetic, production-ready molecule that straitjackets the crucial SARS-CoV-2 machinery that allows the virus to infect our cells. In an aerosol formulation they tested, these molecules could be self-administered with a nasal spray or inhaler. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/08/418241/aeronabs-promise-powerful-inhalable-protection-against-covid-19 5 comments 12/8/2020 science
• We Thought It Was Just a Respiratory Virus - We Were Wrong https://www.ucsf.edu/magazine/covid-body 128 comments 30/7/2020 truereddit
• Some supposedly inert ingredients in common drugs — such as dyes and preservatives — may potentially be biologically active and could lead to unanticipated side effects, according to a preliminary new study https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/07/418146/some-inert-drug-ingredients-may-be-biologically-active 67 comments 24/7/2020 science
• New COVID-19 ‘Citizen Science’ Initiative Lets Any Adult with a Smartphone Help to Fight Coronavirus UCSF Researchers Aim to Enroll One Million Individuals for Real-Time Epidemiology https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/03/417026/new-covid-19-citizen-science-initiative-lets-any-adult-smartphone-help-fight 6 comments 18/4/2020 science
• Five Years After Abortion, Nearly All Women Say It Was the Right Decision. Research found no evidence that women began to regret their decisions as years passed. On the contrary, the women reported that both their positive and negative feelings about the abortion diminished over time. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/01/416421/five-years-after-abortion-nearly-all-women-say-it-was-right-decision-study 2771 comments 19/1/2020 science
• After a decade of searching, the scientists who identified the only human gene known to promote “natural short sleep” — lifelong, nightly sleep that lasts just four to six hours yet leaves individuals feeling fully rested — have discovered a second. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/08/415261/after-10-year-search-scientists-find-second-short-sleep-gene 129 comments 13/10/2019 science
• Red and White Meats Are Equally Bad for Cholesterol - "Contrary to popular belief, consuming red meat and white meat such as poultry, have equal effects on blood cholesterol levels, according to a study published today in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition." https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/06/414606/red-and-white-meats-are-equally-bad-cholesterol 8 comments 4/6/2019 science
• 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. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/04/413836/cancer-exports-molecular-saboteurs-remotely-disarm-immune-system 9 comments 7/4/2019 science
• Medicine CRISPR Gene Editing Makes Stem Cells ‘Invisible’ to Immune System https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/02/413311/crispr-gene-editing-makes-stem-cells-invisible-immune-system 8 comments 19/2/2019 science
• Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease in Brain Scans Six Years Before a Diagnosis https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412946/artificial-intelligence-can-detect-alzheimers-disease-brain-scans-six-years 3 comments 3/1/2019 technology
• Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease in Brain Scans Six Years Before a Diagnosis https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412946/artificial-intelligence-can-detect-alzheimers-disease-brain-scans-six-years 6 comments 3/1/2019 learnmachinelearning
• Artificial Intelligence Can Detect Alzheimer’s Disease in Brain Scans Six Years Before a Diagnosis https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412946/artificial-intelligence-can-detect-alzheimers-disease-brain-scans-six-years 36 comments 3/1/2019 technology
• Sugar’s Sick Secrets: How Industry Forces Have Manipulated Science to Downplay the Harm https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/12/412916/sugars-sick-secrets-how-industry-forces-have-manipulated-science-downplay-harm 3 comments 29/12/2018 worldnews
• New CRISPR-based system called SLICE expands immunotherapy repertoire against fatal cancers - SLICE allows us to perform genome-wide screens in which we mutate every gene in the genome to see which genes have the biggest effect that we can reprogram to generate the most effective cell therapies. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/11/412356/new-slice-tool-can-massively-expand-immune-systems-cancer-fighting-repertoire 40 comments 17/11/2018 science
• How Ketogenic Diets Curb Inflammation in the Brain https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2017/09/408366/how-ketogenic-diets-curb-inflammation-brain 45 comments 28/10/2017 science
• New Hair Growth Mechanism Discovered. Faulty Immune Cells May Play Role in Alopecia, Other Forms of Baldness. https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2017/05/407121/new-hair-growth-mechanism-discovered 9 comments 1/6/2017 science
• Surprising New Role for Lungs: Making Blood - Cells in Mouse Lungs Produce Most Blood Platelets and Can Replenish Blood-Making Cells in Bone Marrow, Study Shows http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2017/03/406111/surprising-new-role-lungs-making-blood 8 comments 23/3/2017 science
• Researchers discover that opposing defects in a single neuronal protein leads either to epilepsy in infancy or autism http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2017/01/405631/autism-researchers-discover-genetic-rosetta-stone?utm_source=ucsf_reddit&utm_campaign=2017_autism_rosetta_stone&utm_medium=reddit 4 comments 26/1/2017 science
• Off-Switch for CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing System Discovered http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2016/12/405361/switch-crispr-cas9-gene-editing-system-discovered 28 comments 29/12/2016 science
• UCSF researchers calculated that daily consumption of a 20-ounce soda was equivalent to an average of 4.6 years of telomere shortening (a proposed biomarker of cellular aging) https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/10/119431/sugared-soda-consumption-cell-aging-associated-new-study 190 comments 3/7/2016 science
• New Autism Genes Are Revealed in Largest-Ever Study http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/09/131871/new-autism-genes-are-revealed-largest-ever-study? 4 comments 29/9/2015 worldnews
• PLOS Science Wednesdays: I’m Seth Blumberg, a physician-scientist here to talk about my study examining the measles outbreak in California and importance of vaccine coverage to prevent further measles transmission — AMA! http://www.ucsf.edu 431 comments 3/6/2015 science
• Researchers Identify Calorie-Burning ‘Beige’ Fat in Humans http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2015/04/124476/researchers-identify-calorie-burning-%E2%80%98beige%E2%80%99-fat-humans 6 comments 6/4/2015 science
• Do gut bacteria rule our minds?: It sounds like science fiction, but it seems that bacteria within us — which outnumber our own cells about 100-fold — may very well be affecting both our cravings and moods to get us to eat what they want, and often are driving us toward obesity http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/08/116526/do-gut-bacteria-rule-our-minds 154 comments 16/8/2014 science
• In Human Evolution, Changes in Skin’s Barrier Set Northern Europeans Apart: UCSF Study Questions Role of Skin Pigment in Enabling Survival at Higher Latitudes http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2014/06/115741/human-evolution-changes-skin%E2%80%99s-barrier-set-northern-europeans-apart 7 comments 1/7/2014 science
• Reducing sodium in American diet would save hundreds of thousands of lives, UCSF study http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/02/13516/reducing-sodium-american-diet-would-save-hundreds-thousands-lives 52 comments 12/2/2013 science
• Tea Party Organizations Have Ties To Tobacco Industry: Nonprofit Tea Party Groups Promote Pro-Tobacco Agenda, Say Researchers http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/02/13507/study-tea-party-organizations-have-ties-tobacco-industry-dating-back-1980s 23 comments 8/2/2013 politics
• Inexpensive Approach to Preventing Type 2 Diabetes Shows Promise in UCSF Study. http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2012/06/12178/inexpensive-approach-preventing-type-2-diabetes-shows-promise-ucsf-study 3 comments 18/6/2012 science

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