Leon Chen

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley professor of chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology, was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for developing the gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9.

Community activist Jean Walsh is running for the AC Transit Board of Directors to represent Ward 2.

According to a study published Aug. 25, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, or APIs, who are diagnosed with melanoma have a higher mortality rate than their white counterparts but are diagnosed less frequently.

Three of UC Health’s academic health centers received recognition for patient care quality and safety programs.

On Thursday, Caltrans cleared the Seabreeze and University Avenue Interstate 80 underpass homeless encampment in the Berkeley Marina.

Two men were hit by an Amtrak train and killed on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near Fourth Street and Bancroft Way on Thursday night.

Thursday marked the nine-year anniversary of the unsolved murder of Adolfo Ignacio Celedon Bravo, which occurred on the morning of Sept. 12, 2010, his 35th birthday.

UC Berkeley’s introductory computer science course hit the class maximum of 2,000 enrolled students this semester, seeing an increase from the previous maximum enrollment of 1,961 during the fall 2018 semester.

The meeting will discuss wheelchair charging opportunities for the homeless, a visit to a new sister city and the decriminalization of psychoactive plants.  

The Berkeley Police Review Commission, or PRC, met Wednesday evening to welcome two new commissioners and discuss the use of automated license plate readers, or ALPRs.