Ahead of the Oct 6 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, we take a look back at UCSF's Nobel laueretes, their discoveries, and the UCSF research building on their work today.

Papers from research teams with a substantial number of beginners are highly disruptive and innovative, study shows.

Pioneering embryologist Shoukhrat Mitalipov reported that his team has encountered hurdles in creating functional human eggs in the lab ...

"RUBY"—a cost-effective innovation designed to track gene activity—is proving valuable across a range of fields. It all started with the idea of finding a better way to monitor genes.

Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along its path, the moistened swab collected scraps of life: some combination of ...

It's a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we've featured year-end roundups of cool science ...

The Habitable Worlds Observatory is poised to tell us whether Earthlike planets are common—if it can get off the ground ...

Professor Yunde Zhao dissects a RUBY flower of a thale cress (right, Arabidopsis thaliana), a small plant in the mustard family used as a model for genetic manipulations. A benthi plant (left, ...