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Campus & community

CRISPR researchers and startup entrepreneurs will share new building in UC Berkeley’s Innovation Zone

A planned addition to the campus's Innovation Zone will expand lab space for the Innovative Genomics Institute and build out the largest innovation hub — Bakar Labs — at any U.S. university.

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Mind & body

UC Berkeley scientists uncover neural mechanisms behind long-term memory

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Mind & body

Repairing the heart: If zebrafish can do it, why not humans?

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Research

From COVID to cancer, new at-home test spots disease with startling accuracy

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Pioneering theoretical physicist Mary K. Gaillard has died at 86

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Scientists complete the most thorough analysis yet of India’s genetic diversity

Michael Bolden selected to be next dean of UC Berkeley Journalism

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Leinweber Foundation and UC Berkeley establish $18 million endowment to fund theoretical physics research

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Are groovy brains more efficient?

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Federal appeals court sends CRISPR-Cas9 patent case back to patent office for reconsideration

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Flamingos create water tornados to trap their prey

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Not one, but two massive black holes are eating away at this galaxy

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Planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton to head Space Sciences Laboratory

James B. Milliken named 22nd president of the University of California

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Indigenous knowledge helps biotech find new drugs. This grad student wants those companies to give back.

Scientists trick the eye into seeing new color ‘olo’

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