Research & Innovation

When saltwater fish long ago evolved to live in fresh water, many of them also evolved a more sophisticated hearing system, including middle ear bones similar to those in humans.

Two-thirds of all freshwater fish today — including more than 10,000 species, from catfish to popular aquarium fish like tetras and zebrafish — have this middle ear system, called the Weberian apparatus, which allows them to hear sounds at much higher frequencies than most ocean fish can, with a range close to that of humans.

University of California, Berkeley, paleontologist...

At first, studying meat consumption in Germany may seem like a niche topic. But for UC Berkeley History Professor John Efron, meat offers a revealing lens into Jewish-German relations throughout centuries.

In his new book, “All Consuming: Germans, Jews, and the Meaning of Meat,” published earlier this year, Efron explores how meat in Germany from the Middle Ages until modern times – used in real and symbolic terms – served to distinguish Jews from Christians, along with Jews from each other. It simultaneously brought...

Andrew Dillin is a professor of immunology and molecular medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB). He would be in the Department of Neuroscience, too, if he wasn’t so dang busy.

In addition to his regular teaching and research duties, Dillin is developing the Division of Immunology and Molecular Medicine’s new curriculum while serving as the faculty co-director of the Robinson Life Science,...