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Awards

UC Berkeley professor Brian Staskawicz awarded Wolf Prize in Agriculture

Staskawicz was recognized for groundbreaking discoveries into the immune system and disease resistance in plants.

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Mind & body

Federal research cuts could worsen infectious disease toll worldwide, Berkeley expert warns

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Mind & body

How cuts to NIH funding could impact cancer patients

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People

This shy California shrew avoided the camera and the limelight — until now

A headshot of Adam Yala.

UC Berkeley professor Adam Yala is pioneering AI for cancer prediction

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Six young faculty members named Sloan Fellows

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En busca de una rana venenosa y de un nombre culturalmente apropiado

brown frog with yellow stripe on side, sitting on a brown leaf

In pursuit of a poison frog — and a culturally appropriate name

A close up of a small shrew sitting in grass and leaves.

California’s most elusive mammal photographed for the first time

A hand holds up a European green crab, revealing it's yellow-colored underside.

Invasive green crabs offer lessons on ecosystem management amid environmental change

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Life cycles of some insects adapt well to a changing climate. Others, not so much.

Jack Tseng stands on the second floor of the Valley Life Sciences Building looking down on a replica of a T. rex

Berkeley Voices: Think you know what dinosaurs were like? Think again.

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Fly vs. wasp: Stealing a defense move helps thwart a predator

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A new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans

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Bruce Ames, developer of a simple, widely used test to detect carcinogens, is dead at 95

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David Baker, a UC Berkeley Ph.D., awarded 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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