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side view of a brown fly, and closeup of abdomen with 2 dark spots

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

December 23, 2024

red and black human figures on the wall of a cave, with DNA helices inside each figure

A new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans

December 12, 2024

man in glasses next to microscope looking into the camera

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

October 10, 2024

a man in blue shirt with tousled hair stands in front of a whiteboard

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

October 9, 2024

man with bushy hair and mustache holding a cellphone to each ear and smiling

Alumnus Gary Ruvkun shares 2024 Nobel Prize for discovering microRNA

October 7, 2024

Fish swim among seaweed and anemones

New center to advance use of seaweed in the global economy

October 2, 2024

a symmetric, oblong object covered with tiny patches of gray and bubble-gum yellows, blues, oranges and reds

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

October 2, 2024

smiling man with glasses in a dark blue suit sitting at a desk

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

September 20, 2024

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

Berkeley Talks: What is understanding? Berkeley scholars discuss

September 6, 2024

outline sketches of grains: corn, wheat and rice

Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods

September 4, 2024

an orange slice of bread and an orange liquid in a white bowl being topped with a drop of amber liquid from a pipette

Can fungi turn food waste into the next culinary sensation?

August 29, 2024

a ball of blue blobs with hundreds of orange hairs sticking out

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

August 22, 2024

glowing green elongated worms cluster together like segments of an orange

Do smells prime our gut to fight off infection?

August 7, 2024

people on hillside gather around person gesturing to pinyon pines

Working with Tribal nations to preserve pinyon forests and pine nuts

June 24, 2024

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

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

June 13, 2024

side by side portraits of a woman and a man

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

June 12, 2024