Roughly 41 percent of dementia cases in the United States trace back to a dozen risk factors that people can actually change, ...

Every cell in the human body carries the same 3 billion letters of DNA, yet a neuron, a heart muscle cell and a pancreatic beta cell each use that shared code to do entirely different jobs. How cells ...

Why do cancers develop differently in different people-even when they are exposed to the same risk factors? An international research group, including the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), has now ...

Aspiring physician and recent college graduate Minjae (MJ) Eum intends to change circumstances and attitudes about medicine and health care in her home state, Alabama, patient by patient. Many people ...

Genetic testing can predict dementia years before symptoms emerge. Discover why many at risk choose not to know the results.

Dr. Kate Metcalf has been appointed as an assistant professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Information. She began her role on ...

Knowing how viruses change in the initial weeks of an infection can provide important information about their adaptability.

The comprehensive program combines five weeks of online instruction with a one-day, hands-on training workshop offered at two ...

Sensing that breast cancer ran in certain families, the geneticist Mary-Claire King and a team of researchers at UC Berkeley ...