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| Aug. 7 |
SF City Hall |
New mission for Zoo approved City have given preliminary approval to a proposal to turn the local zoo into a sanctuary for rescued wildlife and domestic animals
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| Aug. 6 |
San Francisco |
Pfizer moving biotech research unit to S.F.| The world's largest drugmaker will move the headquarters of its new biotech research unit to Mission Bay, next door to UCSF's new campus | |
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| Jul.10 |
SF Zoo |
Smuggled Eurasian Owl Makes Home In SF A Eurasian eagle owl that was smuggled from Austria to the U.S. as a decorated Easter egg was transferred into the custody of the zoo
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| Mar.8 |
SF Bayview |
School Gets City's First Bee Garden  Willie Brown Jr. Academy will acquire the city's first bee garden on a public school campus when 4-8-graders help create the garden
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| Mar.7 |
SF Zoo |
Tiger gives birth to cub The zoo, which lost a tiger on Christmas Day, is celebrating the arrival of a newborn tiger cub who belongs to Leanne and George, Sumatran tigers
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| Dec.13 |
San Francisco |
 Stem cell agency hands out $54 million California's stem cell agency has announced that young scientists will receive grants to build research programs at universities
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Dead Whale Washes Up On Beach
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| Jul.30 |
UCSF |
Group: Researchers mistreated animals A physicians group accuses UCSF researchers of drilling holes in monkeys' skulls and inducing irregular heartbeats in dogs
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| May.30 |
San Francisco |
Unpredictable Whales Slip Out To Sea More than 2 weeks after they were first spotted far up the Sacramento River, two lost humpbacks finally found their way home to the ocean
| Officials assumed the pair returned to the open sea. To make sure the whales did not take wrong turn, 2 boats were launched to look for them in the Pacific
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Golden Gate Bridge |
Wayward Whales At Mouth Of Bay A mother and her calf appeared on the east side of the north and south towers
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| May.2 |
SF Zoo |
Zoo to open new habitat for grizzly bears The Zoo will be opening up the Hearst Grizzly Gulch, this summer, for the 2 female bears, Kachina and Kiona
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| Mar.29 |
Bay Bridge |
Biologists To Rescue Falcon Eggs| Biologists from Santa Cruz postponed the rescue a clutch of endangered peregrine falcon eggs from underneath the bridge | |
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$500 million grant to develop new biofuels
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| Jun.29 |
Genentech |
2 drugs set to fight blindness
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| Apr.22 |
San Francisco |
Victory For Stem Cell Research Agency San Francisco's $3 billion institute won a victory with a court ruling rejecting challenges to its constitutionality
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| Feb.27 |
San Francisco |
Court Battle Over Stem Cell Research The financial future of $3 billion human embryonic stem cell research institute went on trial
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| Feb.13 |
Genentech |
Cancer Drug Trials Scaled Back Avastin only targets cancer, and leaves healthy cells alone
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| Nov.1 |
SF Mission |
Controversial Stem Cell Center Opens| Officials celebrated the opening of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine | |
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| Oct.1 |
San Francisco |
Stem cell agency meeting Stem cell researchers from around the world are discussing what course of action to take
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| Jul.2 |
San Francisco |
Progress Made in Stem Cell Disputes The issues being dealt include how much of the oversight committee will be open to the public
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| Jun.23 |
SF City Hall |
City Formalizes Deal For Stem Cell HQ
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| Jun.7 |
SF Zoo |
Zoo Names Grizzy Bears The sisters will now be called Kiona and Kachina, the Native American words mean 'brown hills' and 'sacred dancer'
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| May.29 |
Golden Gate Park |
World's Largest, Stinkiest Plant Enthralls All weekend long, people flocked to the Conservatory of Flowers hoping to catch a glimpse of 'Ted the Titan'
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| May.7 |
San Francisco |
Stem Cell Institute Faces Legal Challenges One claims the oversight of $3-billion is illegal. The other claims language in Proposition 71 is unconstitutional
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| May.6 |
San Francisco |
SF Gets Stem Cell Headquarters The 29-member committee made the decision over San Diego, Sacramento and Emeryville
| Members of the governing board that oversees the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, took 2 roll-call votes to decide the contest. Mayor Newsom called it a historic achievement for a city and region suffering through the collapse of the dot-com bubble. California voters passed Proposition 71, which authorized $3 billion worth of state bonds in a decadelong program just now getting started
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| May.2 |
San Francisco |
Panel Endorses SF for Stem Cell Center A subcommittee of the 29-member board that oversees the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
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Stem cell selection committee toured town
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| Apr.16 |
SF Zoo |
Zoo Sells Naming Rights To Grizzlies The zoo adopted 2 bears in October that were originally scheduled to be euthanized
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Researchers exposed to deadly anthrax
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