Doudna and her colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier, who together invented the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool, shared the prize with Lithuanian biologist Virginijus Šikšnys, who simultaneously discovered how the enzyme works

Racial resentment found to fuel opposition to government anti-poverty programs

Each has a sizable lead over the rest of the field heading into election day

David M. Robinson has been named UC Berkeley’s chief campus counsel, effective June 1. He has served in this position on an interim basis since August 2017

For the fourth year in a row, UC Berkeley ranks sixth in the world when it comes to its reputation among its peers, according to new rankings from Times Higher Education

The winning name combination will be announced on Friday, June 1, the day fledgewatch begins

William Dow takes over from Stefano Bertozzin on July 1, 2018

Gillian Hart, a UC Berkeley professor emerita of geography, has been awarded the 2018 Vega Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography for her contributions to human geography. The award is  the most prestigious prize in the discipline. 

He wants you to know that he appreciates the irony in the way that his paper on how political information spreads across Twitter became a victim of … how political information spreads across Twitter.

The Karuk Tribe’s food system was broken almost overnight by a presidential act, and has yet to recover. Jennifer Sowerwine, an assistant Cooperative Extension specialist with the College of Natural Resources, believes it still can

Margaret Atwood’s "The Handmaid’s Tale," the dystopian novel about a dark time in America's future and those who resist, leads this year’s summer reading list at UC Berkeley

Twenty of 26 measured programs either improved or maintained their APR scores from a year ago, while 11 teams equaled or established all-time highs

The primary determines who will be on the ballot in November and five ballot initiatives

George Brooks, who discovered the key role lactate plays during exercise, says that it also plays a vital role in recovery from disease

Preterm birthrates dropped 20-25 percent when nearby power plants closed, providing an argument for replacing fossil fuel plants with renewable energy sources

Chemists develop technology that shows great promise for enhancing the signal from MRI and nuclear magnetic resonance using lasers without expensive magnets

As more water is diverted from rivers and lakes, hippos increasingly frolic in cesspools of their own making

In a new podcast, Deirdre English talks to Berkeley journalism professor about his new book

Researchers made their way to the second balcony of UC Berkeley's Campanile to put identifiers on the two males and one female, born about three weeks ago

UC Berkeley's Jud King and UC San Diego's Richard Atkinson, who together led the University of California systemwide for almost a decade, are recognized by Berkeley 's Academic Senate