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3 weeks ago | 
matr.net | Robin Marks
SBA 504 Loans offered statewide! Real estate and equipment, acquisitions, renovation, and new construction. Low, fixed-rates up to 25 years with as little as 10% down.
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1 month ago | 
ucsf.edu | Robin Marks
Cell biologist Fred Chang, MD, PhD, has been named a fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its Science family of journals. The fellowship is a highly esteemed lifetime honor within the scientific community. Fellows are elected each year by the AAAS Council, in a tradition dating back to 1874.
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1 month ago | 
universityofcalifornia.edu | Robin Marks
He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by imagining himself performing the actions. The device, known as a brain-computer interface (BCI), worked for a record seven months without needing to be adjusted. Until now, such devices have only worked for a day or two.
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1 month ago | 
ucsf.edu | Robin Marks
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Reddit Print this article Researchers at UC San Francisco have enabled a man who is paralyzed to control a robotic arm that receives signals from his brain via a computer. He was able to grasp, move and drop objects just by imagining himself performing the actions. The device, known as a brain-computer interface (BCI), worked for a record seven months without needing to be adjusted. Until now, such devices have only worked for a day or two.
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2 months ago | 
ucsf.edu | Robin Marks
Starting today, people with Parkinson’s disease will have a new treatment option, thanks to U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval of groundbreaking new technology. The therapy, known as adaptive deep brain stimulation, or aDBS, uses an implanted device that continuously monitors the brain for signs that Parkinson’s symptoms are developing. When it detects specific patterns of brain activity, it delivers precisely calibrated electric pulses to keep symptoms at bay.
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2 months ago | 
universityofcalifornia.edu | Robin Marks
Scientists have known for a while that a jumbo phage pulls off its attack and escapes the bacteria’s defenses by surrounding its DNA with a protective shield made of protein. But how the shield recognizes certain useful molecules and allows them to pass in while keeping harmful ones out has been a mystery. Now, research from UC San Francisco, published Feb.
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2 months ago | 
ucsf.edu | Robin Marks
Jumbo phages belong to a group of viruses that attack bacteria. They inject their DNA and then reproduce by taking over the cell’s DNA-copying machinery. Eventually, a phage makes so many copies of itself that it will burst bacterial cell it has infected. Scientists have known for a while that a jumbo phage pulls off its attack and escapes the bacteria’s defenses by surrounding its DNA with a protective shield made of protein.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
ucsf.edu | Robin Marks
Some people bounce back from trauma, but others get caught in depressive loops that sap the joy from their lives. Now, scientists at UC San Francisco are learning how the brain creates these divergent experiences. They hope it will help them find a way to treat those who struggle with long-lasting symptoms of stress. The researchers found that stress changes activity in a brain circuit in mice, and these changes distinguish the mice that will recover from the ones that won’t.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
news.ucsc.edu | Robin Marks |Emily Cerf
In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. The researchers used brain tissue that had been removed from epilepsy patients as part of their treatment.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
ucsf.edu | Robin Marks
Remove this text and use the embed button to add an image. What is optogenetics? Optogenetics employs a harmless virus to deliver light-sensitive genes to a particular set of neurons in the brain that can then be switched on and off with pulses of light. In a first, UC researchers used the technique to control seizure-like activity in brain tissue taken from epilepsy patients during surgery that was part of their treatment.
