ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from UCSF. UCSF is a health sciences research university with major strengths in biomedical science, clinical research, precision medicine, neuroscience, cancer, genetics, immunology, and population health. Its researchers combine basic, translational, and clinical investigation to uncover disease mechanisms, develop new therapies and diagnostics, and improve prevention and care across conditions including neurological disorders, cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes, and infectious disease.
By systematically disabling nearly 12,000 genes across 33.4 million primary human T cells, researchers revealed how genetic networks drastically alter their behavior between resting and activated immune states.