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It’s Hearty, It’s Meaty, It’s Mold
Berkeley researchers are working to unlock the richly diverse genomes of fungi to engineer them into meat alternatives.
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2024 Bakar Prize Recipients Target Skin Disease, Spintronics and Tree Bark
Five UC Berkeley faculty members have been awarded the 2024 Bakar Prize, which is designed to give a boost to campus innovators as they translate their discoveries into real-world solutions.
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As America’s Rule of Law Is Threatened, Black History Holds Lessons
Berkeley professor reveals the many ways Black Americans, long before the Civil Rights Movement, navigated the law by asserting their civil rights of property.
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Museums’ Vertebrate Collections Go Online — In 3D
A six-year project, called openVertebrate (oVert), offered researchers a glimpse of how the data might be used to ask new scientific questions and spur the development of innovative technology.
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New Center Aims To Create Healthcare Innovation Research-To-Impact Pipeline
A new Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation aims to shape the future of AI in healthcare through groundbreaking economic research, data partnerships and more.
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Seismic Station on Remote Farallon Islands Gets Critical Upgrade
Seven engineers from the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory helicoptered into the Farallon Islands on an eight-day mission to upgrade one of the lab’s most critical seismic stations.
A dot of an orange sun is visible through thick smoke generated by the Caldor Fire in South Lake Tahoe in 2021. Researchers are studying how smoke from fires like this can cause long-term health effects.
Wildfire Smoke Disproportionately Affects California’s Indigenous Communities, New Research Shows
Using a novel series of metrics, researchers found that these communities were exposed to about 1.7 times as much wildfire smoke as would be expected based on their statewide populations.
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What Bats Can Teach Us About the Evolution of Human Speech
Researchers have identified the part of the brain in Egyptian fruit bats that controls vocalizations and found that it contains very similar neural wiring to the part of the human brain that controls speech.
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Junk DNA in Birds May Hold Key to Safe, Efficient Gene Therapy
A new technique called Precise RNA-mediated INsertion of Transgenes, or PRINT, was developed in the laboratory of Kathleen Collins, professor of molecular and cell biology.
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Nine Young Faculty Members Receive Prized Sloan Research Fellowships
The largest number of awardees from any institution may be a sign of the University of California, Berkeley's ability to attract the most promising early-career researchers.
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Deep Data — and Big Money — Are Driving a New Era in Political Advertising
TV ads shaped by social science-based testing can have a powerful impact on voter attitudes, new research finds. But that comes with challenges for U.S. democracy.
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Online Images May Be Turning Back the Clock on Gender Bias, Research Finds
UC Berkeley researchers find that online images show stronger gender biases than online texts and that bias is more psychologically potent in visual form than in writing.
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Are Stressed-Out Brain Cells the Root Cause of Neurodegenerative Disease?
UC Berkeley research suggests that constant stress triggered by clumping proteins is killing brain cells.
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For New Professor, Psychedelics and Octopuses May Hold Keys to the Human Mind
UC Berkeley professor explores how the brain engages with the drug ecstasy and what it might mean for the future of psychedelic-assisted treatment.
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Cybersecurity Clinic at UC Berkeley Helps Nonprofits Protect Themselves Online
Citizen Clinic, UC Berkeley’s cybersecurity clinic, is a semester-long course that gives students hands-on training and experience as they deliver pro bono digital security assistance to nonprofits and other public interest organizations.
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The New Car Batteries That Could Power the EV Revolution
There’s a revolution brewing in batteries for electric cars, which will rely on alternative designs to the conventional lithium-ion batteries that have dominated EVs for decades.