Kimberly Nielsen

A team featuring researchers from UC Berkeley hopes to spur contributions to Alzheimer’s disease research by developing an online game that enlists citizens as scientists.

When a group of campus researchers induced the symptoms of Huntington’s disease — a fatal genetic disorder that claims millions of lives every year — in the cells of roundworms, the last outcome they expected was weight gain.

Campus researchers have unearthed a new — and potentially deadly — link between white racial bias and heart complications in Black people as part of a study published online in Psychological Science this June.

The UC Global Health Institute announced funding for two specialized centers of expertise — one addressing women’s health and empowerment and another advocating for research on planetary health.

Campus researchers revealed a 21 percent decline in sugar-sweetened beverage consumption in Berkeley’s low-income neighborhoods following the nation’s first-ever soda tax in a study released Tuesday.

A new sensor built by several campus researchers has far-reaching potential to treat serious conditions such as paraplegia and epilepsy once implanted inside the body — all at the size of a grain of sand.

Researchers from UC Berkeley and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have shined a light on the mysteries surrounding black holes and their nearby galaxies in a study published in April.

At its meeting May 31, the UC Board of Regents unveiled a comprehensive proposal to limit incidents of conflicts of interest among senior management.

Mu-ming Poo, a campus neurobiology professor emeritus renowned for creatively exploring the effect of life experiences on the brain, will receive this year's esteemed Gruber Neuroscience Prize along with a $500,000 cash award.

Researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have pinned down a poorly understood means of enhancing lithium-ion batteries, unlocking the power to boost performance in a multitude of common electronics.