biology

Fish swim among seaweed and anemones

Campus & community

New center to advance use of seaweed in the global economy

Nearly $13 million in funding announced today will establish the International Bioeconomy Macroalgae Center at UC Berkeley.

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Mind & body

Researchers simulate an entire fly brain on a laptop. Is a human brain next?

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People

A Q&A with the new dean of biological sciences, Richard Harland

Aileen Liu, Hernan Garcia, Christian Paiz and Arianne Eason sit in chairs on a dark stage and talk

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: What is understanding? Berkeley scholars discuss

outline sketches of grains: corn, wheat and rice

Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods

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Can fungi turn food waste into the next culinary sensation?

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Creature the size of a dust grain found hiding in California’s Mono Lake

glowing green elongated worms cluster together like segments of an orange

Do smells prime our gut to fight off infection?

people on hillside gather around person gesturing to pinyon pines

Working with Tribal nations to preserve pinyon forests and pine nuts

A close-up photo of a plant with a small white flower.

Can engineered plants help make baby formula as nutritious as breast milk?

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UC Berkeley neuroscientist and nanoscientist among this year’s Kavli Prize winners

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Tracking down the genetic causes of lupus to personalize treatment

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A conversation with outgoing biological sciences dean Michael Botchan

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Far from toxic, lactate rivals glucose as body’s major fuel after a carbohydrate meal

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Museums’ vertebrate collections go online — in 3D

An Egyptian fruit bat hangs upside down from a branch.

What bats can teach us about the evolution of human speech