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an illustration showing firearm bullets, a city, and a community garden, as if to indicate the ways that gun violence is connected to the built environment and public policy

UC Berkeley course explores gun violence as a public health issue

August 13, 2024

doctor writing a prescription

Altered States: Will doctors soon prescribe ecstasy?

August 9, 2024

glowing green elongated worms cluster together like segments of an orange

Do smells prime our gut to fight off infection?

August 7, 2024

an illustration showing tampons

UC Berkeley study finds arsenic, lead, other toxic metals in tampons

July 5, 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

An illustration of a brain with flowers growing out of it.

Psychedelics change how we see the world. A UC Berkeley study aims to find out why.

June 11, 2024

an illustration showing colorful microbes

Simple steps could prevent thousands of deaths from antimicrobial resistance every year

June 3, 2024

outlines in red of a woman's torso and four circles containing a thermometer, a face with a rash, a painful knee and a woman sleeping

Tracking down the genetic causes of lupus to personalize treatment

May 23, 2024

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

February 29, 2024

small brown bird with yellow patch near eye, and two birds with orange beaks

Junk DNA in birds may hold key to safe, efficient gene therapy

February 20, 2024

graphic showing a circular bubble buds from a flat membrane

Highly targeted CRISPR delivery advances gene editing in living animals

February 1, 2024

3 gray and white slices through the brain with a few areas highlighted in orange and yellow

Innovative design achieves tenfold better resolution for functional MRI brain imaging

November 27, 2023

A photo of a woman wearing a red shirt and hat while sitting in a cafe.

Cheri A. Pies, author of pioneering book on lesbian parenting, dies at 73

July 20, 2023

A photo shows someone holding a cardboard sign that says

How Berkeley Public Health is becoming an antiracist school

July 14, 2023

Two black and white images next to each other, with one showing a blood glucose monitor and another showing a person with their eyes closed, sleeping.

New research finds deep-sleep brain waves predict blood sugar control

July 7, 2023

A phalanx of police officers prepared for a night-time demonstration

Berkeley legal, health experts confront excessive police use of force

May 10, 2023