FYI…UCSF in the News is a daily summary of news stories published worldwide that highlight UCSF, its affiliated programs, and issues that affect the University.  To read the full news story, click the individual headlines listed below.

On the second Wednesday of each month, FYI…UCSF in the News includes an additional "Research Roundup" section that lists research papers authored by UCSF faculty and published in the journals Cell, Health Services Research, JAMA, Lancet, Nature, NEJM, Nursing Research, and Science.

UCSF PRINT AND ONLINE COVERAGE

  • Wanted diverse docs -- Letters to the Editor (Fresno Bee)
    A letter to the Fresno Bee states: "The gap between the racial and ethnic makeup of our population and the physicians who care for it is a critical public health issue. Providing language access and culturally proficient care is not just a good idea -- it is central to patients' health. The ideal is to train a diverse health care work force that reflects today's society." --- The University of California, San Francisco Fresno Center for Medical Education and Research is mentioned.

UCSF RADIO COVERAGE

  • The Lifecycle of a Tooth (NPR)
    NPR explores the lifecycle of a tooth. --- Dr. Mark Ryder, professor and chair of periodontology at the University of California San Francisco School of Dentistry, is interviewed.

UCSF HEADLINES

RESEARCH ROUNDUP

  • Drosophila egg-laying site selection as a system to study simple decision-making processes. (Science)
    Yang CH, Belawat P, Hafen E, Jan LY, Jan YN. --- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physiology, Biochemistry, and Biophysics, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143-0725, USA.
  • MicroRNAs Make Big Impression in Disease After Disease (Science)
    Hunting for new ways to diagnose and treat common diseases, biologists and companies are racing to decipher the promise of these RNAs --- Deepak Srivastava, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of California, San Francisco, is interviewed.
  • Evolution of Eukaryotic Transcription Circuits (Science)
    Brian B. Tuch,1,2 Hao Li,1 Alexander D. Johnson1,2 --- 1 Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. 2 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA. To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ajohnson@cgl.ucsf.edu
  • All in the Stroma: Cancer's Cosa Nostra (Science)
    After focusing for decades on what happens within tumor cells to make them go wrong, biologists are turning to the tumor environment and finding a network of coconspirators --- Zena Werb of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is interviewed.

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