South San Francisco (San Mateo, California)

After nearly two decades of futile searching for a vaccine against the AIDS virus, researchers are reporting the tantalizing discovery of antibodies that can prevent the virus from multiplying in the body and producing severe disease. They do not have...

Officials say a four-alarm fire at a meatpacking plant in South San Francisco is estimated to have caused more than $5 million in damage. South San Francisco Fire Marshal Luis Da Silva says the cause of Thursday's blaze at the 40,000-square-foot Columbus...

Marian Wagstaff, a far-sighted educator who turned a Compton school into a model of racial harmony and integrated its faculty years before the court rulings and civil rights protests of the 1950s and '60s, died April 26 at a nursing home in Santa Cruz....

The University of California will have two new chancellors this fall, and both of them are women with strong credentials in science and engineering. The UC Board of Regents on Thursday approved the appointments of Susan Desmond-Hellmann as chancellor...

On a warm autumn afternoon, toward the end of a daylong barrage of PowerPoint presentations, a white-haired, gentlemanly fellow named Michael Merzenich faced a room full of neuroscientists and pharmaceutical executives and declared that, really, they...

IN chocolate circles, it's often said that ganache reveals the true art of the chocolatier. Ganache, that creamy, silky, melt-in-your mouth blend of chocolate, cream and butter, is at the heart of many of the best artisan confections. And more and more...

In February 2002, the search for a cure for ovarian cancer appeared to take a significant step forward. Using an advanced computer program and a single drop of blood from patients, researchers from the National Institutes of Health and a private firm,...