Parkinson's Disease

Campus junior Andy Liu is running for ASUC senator on platforms dedicated to students within the East Asian, international, and GenEq communities.

As the race to find a cure for Parkinson’s disease continues, UC Berkeley neurobiologist Yang Dan will join a $9 million project to study brain circuitry issues around the disease.

Following multiple reports of bats sustaining injuries or dying during UC Berkeley research, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, alleged that UC Berkeley mistreats bats in animal facilities and called upon campus to switch to safer, human-based research.

Researchers and specialists across the fields of aging and technology congregated Tuesday for the UC Berkeley Aging Research and Technology Summit.

According to the press release, HHS has previously extended the UCSF contract multiple times and launched a review of HHS research projects using human fetal tissue from elective abortions in September 2018. The last extension ended Wednesday.

A potential cure for Glaucoma, previously thought to be incurable, has been discovered by a team of UC Berkeley and University of Toronto researchers, according to a study published Monday.

When a group of campus researchers induced the symptoms of Huntington’s disease — a fatal genetic disorder that claims millions of lives every year — in the cells of roundworms, the last outcome they expected was weight gain.

With stem cells slowly making their way into common medical practice, the answer to hundreds of diseases and disabilities might be contained in one swift injection.