Last week, in part one of this two part series on commercial genetic engineering laboratories. Synapse looked inside two of ...

Both kidneys were failing. He used to farm. Now he drove an auto, measuring his days in fares instead of harvests, making the ...

This was my first time seeing a badger in the wild. I was on a cliff looking down on some sea lions and it walked out in front of me. The sea lions are on the rock far below. This may be the only ...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] Phoebe, panting hard, let the door slam behind her and set down a gallon of milk, a cabbage, and a sweating frozen chicken.

Research leading to treatments of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and HIV-associated dementia will be the focus of UCSF’s new Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease, which was inaugurated with a ...

Applications for a new round of the Environmental Scholars Program are open to all UCSF students who have at least 2 years remaining in their enrollment, due by 9/30/26. The fellowship is a paid ...

Once the obligations of an international agreement are broken for the first time, it's easier to continue breaking the agreement. Congress lives by this truism. In 1946 the United States joined the ...