The award is part of a larger donation to three Broad Foundation-funded stem cell research centers in California.

Biases in machine learning algorithms can produce serious consequences: people can be denied health services, wrongly targeted for crimes or turned away for jobs. PhD student Hsien-Te Kao wants to find a solution.

Researchers at the USC Information Sciences Institute have created software that uses AI to quickly detect deepfake video — deliberately faked videos that look astonishingly real — with 96% accuracy.

The university adds an ombuds office, boosts compliance and makes background checks more stringent.

Patients are turning to over-the-counter medications and mind-body therapies to ease pain without narcotics.

The cells — known as pericytes — preserve neurons in the brain, which can keep dementia and other cognitive disorders at bay.