UC Berkeley |

Rewriting the code: The inside story of the first CRISPR cure

Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC Berkeley.
UC San Diego |

Electric cars won’t fix sitting: The health costs of designing cities around cars

Walkability pioneer, UC San Diego urban planning professor Lawrence Frank revisits two decades of evidence linking car dependence and chronic disease — and explains why cleaner cars won’t make us healthier.
UC San Francisco |

Indoor tanning makes youthful skin much older on a genetic level

Research reveals that artificial sources of ultraviolet radiation cause cellular mutations that can be the seeds of future cancers, including highly deadly melanoma.
UC San Diego |

Five tips on how to have a civil conversation

Civility is fine — but curiosity is even better.
UC Davis |

Lighting strongly influences people’s experience while listening to music, a new study suggests

The research has implications for concert halls, health-care settings and more.
UC Newsroom |

10 awesome discoveries from UC research in 2025

A year of new treatments, new technologies, new ways to stay safe during disasters and new insights on the mysteries of the galaxy, our planet and our past.
UC Newsroom |

What makes UC a scientific powerhouse? Ask a Nobel laureate

Four UC Nobel laureates on what they discovered here, why it matters, and why their world-changing work could only have happened at the University of California.
UC Riverside |

Study links America’s favorite cooking oil to obesity

Scientists previously identified an association between soybean oil and obesity. Now, they've uncovered one of the reasons for the link.
UC Davis |

Extracting rare earth elements from U.S. wastewaters

$3M in federal funding will strengthen the domestic supply chain to support U.S. energy and manufacturing.
UC Santa Barbara |

New haptic display technology creates 3D graphics you can see and feel

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have invented a display technology for on-screen graphics that can be felt via touch.
UC Newsroom |

The next big breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s science and treatment

The outlook for dementia care is changing fast. UC experts explain what that means for patients and families, and what it will take to keep the momentum growing.
UC ANR |

Purple sweet potatoes create buzz

UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor works with LSU breeder to develop new sweet potato varieties for California