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UC San Francisco had many milestones in 2016 in research, education and patient care. Take this quiz to see what you remember about some of our major advances from the last year.

UC San Francisco researchers have visualized the earliest stages of pregnancy in unprecedented detail in laboratory animals and human tissue using new laboratory imaging techniques.

Source: Turner back to Dodgers for 4 years, $64M

P Street pens editorial favoring rookie dress-up

Report: MLB owners ratify CBA deal in 29-1 vote

In a UC San Francisco study of 176 adolescent smokers in San Francisco, 96 percent reported using at least two substances other than cigarettes.

Brewers trade Maldonado to Angels for Bandy

At least one uniform survived Chris Sale's jersey-cutting incident

Stories about sensory processing disorder, videos about “zombie” cancer cells, and news about the effects of caffeine and alcohol on the heart were among the topics that most engaged our readers in 2016.

Education by community-based non-professional health workers significantly increased colorectal cancer screening rates among mostly non-English-speaking, older Chinese-Americans in San Francisco.

Santa Syndergaard ho-ho-hopeful about Mets rotation

Baseball has gone cuckoo for closers

Rockies' Bettis diagnosed with testicular cancer

Two UCSF faculty members – a microbiologist who studies the genesis of asthma and a surgeon who helped lift the ban on organ transplants between HIV-positive donors and recipients – are among this year’s 100 Leading Global Thinkers selected by Foreign Policy magazine.

New MLB hazing rules ban dressing as women

A national survey has found an association between pubic hair grooming and sexually transmitted infections.

UCSF researchers have developed a new variety of targeting system for chemotherapy drugs based on the unusually high free iron content of many cancer cells.

A timeline of milestones over 2016.

Killing in war often triggers a moral conflict in veterans that can damage their self-image, relationships and spirituality.

No Kenley Jansen? Nats have options -- but none are great