Research and education project is designed to highlight the impact of added sugar on health.

Campus-nonprofit partnership gets a funding boost from the National Institutes of Health.

The current Ebola outbreak shows how quickly diseases can spread with global jet travel.

Berkeley Lab researchers assess the health impacts of inhalable constituents of thirdhand smoke.

Originating from indigenous Americans, variant reduces risk by 40 to 80 percent.

Scientists find shorter telomeres — the protective units of DNA that cap the ends of chromosomes — in immune cells of soda drinkers.

Researchers are using biological accelerator mass spectrometry to see how cancer patients respond to specific chemotherapy.

Despite declines in numbers of smokers, related diseases account for one in seven deaths in the state — more than from AIDS, influenza or diabetes.

UC San Diego, UC Irvine and UCLA are among recipients who seek ways to handle data in search of medical discoveries.

UC is active in the battle against the deadly virus, now in its most widespread outbreak.

An infectious-disease expert at UC Berkeley offers a primer on the deadly Ebola virus.

Department of Defense award joins universities, FDA, firms, philanthropies in partnership.