Posts by University of California - San Francisco
Tweaked CRISPR in neurons gives scientists new power to probe brain diseases
Researchers describe a technique that uses a special version of CRISPR to systematically alter the activity of genes in human neurons generated from stem cells, …
Read Full ArticleAlzheimer’s disease destroys neurons that keep us awake
Study suggests Tau tangles, not amyloid plaques, cause excessive daytime sleepiness associated with Alzheimer’s Disease. …
Read Full ArticleScientists discover autoimmune disease associated with testicular cancer
Using advanced technology, scientists discovered an autoimmune disease that appears to affect men with testicular cancer. …
Read Full ArticleMood neurons mature during adolescence
Researchers have discovered a mysterious group of neurons in the amygdala — a key center for emotional processing in the brain — that stay in an immature, prenatal developmental state throughout childhood. …
Read Full ArticleRed 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, …
Read Full ArticleAlzheimer’s disease is a ‘double-prion disorder’
Two proteins central to the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease act as prions — misshapen proteins that spread through tissue like an infection by forcing normal proteins to adopt the same misfolded shape …
Read Full ArticleSpeech synthesis from neural decoding of spoken sentences
A state-of-the-art brain-machine interface created by UC San Francisco neuroscientists can generate natural-sounding synthetic speech …
Read Full ArticleCancer-killing combination therapies unveiled with new drug-screening tool
UC San Francisco scientists have designed a large-scale screen that efficiently identifies drugs that are potent cancer-killers when combined, …
Read Full ArticlePancreatic beta cell senescence linked to type 1 diabetes onset
A UC San Francisco study of human and mouse pancreatic tissue suggests a new origin story for type 1 (T1) diabetes. …
Read Full ArticleCRISPR gene editing makes stem cells ‘invisible’ to immune system
UC San Francisco scientists have used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system to create the first pluripotent stem cells that are functionally “invisible” to the immune system, …
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