Thursday, September 28, 2023

UCSF Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Faculty Awarded $3.93M Team Science Grant to...

Researchers from UCSF’s Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging were recently awarded a $3.93 million Translational Team Science Award from the Department of Defense. This team project is led by...

Trigonelline derived from coffee improves cognitive functions in mice

The search for functional natural compounds that can improve age-related cognitive decline has recently emerged as an important research focus to promote healthy aging. Trigonelline (TG), a plant alkaloid found in coffee, as well...

Improving genetic risk prediction across diverse population by disentangling ancestry representations

In this section, we first describe how we constructed the dataset and provide details of our proposed method and implementations for collaboratively training the AI model.Dataset preparationThis study considers two datasets: the ADSP and...

Inna Cotur named UCSF Wellness Champion

Inna Cotur senior radiologic technologist, has been chosen to be the Wellness Champion for the UCSF Diagnostic Radiology Department-Parnassus Campus. Inna, graduate of the City College of San Francisco, Diagnostic...

Walk or Donate to Support Breast Health

Join NOVA 12 SF, a 12-mile walk around San Francisco followed by a health fair, on Saturday, October 14. The walk represents the 12% of women who develop breast cancer,...

Celebrating Excellence in Medical Imaging: UCSF’s 2023 Minnies Nominees

Every year, the medical imaging community eagerly anticipates the Minnies, an initiative by AuntMinnie.com that celebrates the outstanding contributions and achievements in the field of medical imaging. The Minnies serve...

Phenylalanine-tRNA aminoacylation is compromised by ALS/FTD-associated C9orf72 C4G2 repeat RNA

ReagentsThe following primary antibodies and dilutions were used: FARSA (18121-1-AP; WB 1:1000; IF/PLA 1:500), FARSB (16341-1-AP; WB 1:1000; IF/PLA 1:500), TAOK1 (23379-1-AP; WB 1:1000, IF/PLA 1:500), CNP (13427-1-AP; WB 1:1000), CYFIP1/2 (16011-1-AP; WB 1:1000),...

Divergent single cell transcriptome and epigenome alterations in ALS and FTD patients with C9orf72...

Human samplesHuman frozen postmortem tissues were obtained from the Mayo Clinic Brain Bank (Jacksonville, FL USA). Notably, 3 of the 12 control brains were obtained via the Einstein Aging Study. All brains were acquired...

Potential new approach to PTSD treatment

An LSU Health New Orleans research study led by Siqiong June Liu, PhD, Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy, has found that cerebellar inhibitory interneurons are essential for fear memory, a type of emotional...

Lactobacillus-derived extracellular vesicles counteract Aβ42-induced abnormal transcriptional changes through the upregulation of MeCP2 and...

AnimalsTg-APPswe/PS1dE9 (Tg-APP/PS1) mice, which overexpress mutant forms of human amyloid precursor protein (APP) and presenilin-1 (PS1) genes, were maintained as C57BL6 × C3H F1 hybrids as previously described22,32. After weaning, male and female mice were separately...
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