When a diminutive skeleton — measuring just six inches long, with a tiny, cone-shaped head and only 10 pairs of ribs — was discovered behind an abandoned church in the Atacama region of Chile in 2003, ...

Researchers are trying to uncover more about how individuals' genetics affect their risk of Type 2 diabetes and how the disease will develop, a step away from viewing it as a one-size-fits-all ...

Atul Butte, MD, pediatrician and computer science leader, has been named the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg Distinguished Professor at UC San Francisco, where he takes the reins at the Institute ...

How is all this data going to help bring the right drug to the right person at the right time? Atul Butte, a UCSF professor, computational health expert and entrepreneur, has some ideas. Atul Butte is ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, MD, donated $10 million to support research by Atul Butte, MD, PhD, director of UC San Francisco’s Institute for Computational Health Sciences ...

Puzzling skeletal remains found in Chile 15 years ago -- and rumored to be "alien" -- are, in fact, from a human fetus with rare bone anomalies, researchers say. The findings may or may not put to ...

Atul Butte, MD, PhD, will advise the California Governor’s Office on emerging precision medicine policy issues as part of a new advisory committee. Photo by Elisabeth Fall Atul Butte, MD, PhD, has ...

Stanford University professor and NuMedii co-founder Atul Butte. Expand to read more NuMedii Inc. is looking to make a big difference in drug development with Big Data. NuMedii Inc. is looking to make ...

UC San Francisco has received a National Cancer Institute grant of $5 million over the next five years to lead a massive effort to integrate the data from all experimental models across all types of ...

Backed by a $10 million grant from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, M.D., the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) has launched a new research initiative aimed at ...