February 05, 2025
Bronwyn Lucas is an assistant professor of biochemistry, biophysics, and structural biology in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology and the Center for Computational Biology. The Lucas lab employs cryo-EM and computational tools to develop new approaches to leverage the growing databases of molecular structures to investigate the molecular details of life. QB3-Berkeley: What’s…
January 08, 2025
Jennifer Doudna, a UC Berkeley biochemist who shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing, has been awarded a National Medal of Technology and Innovation, the nation’s highest honor for technological achievement. President Joe Biden named Doudna and 10 other technology medalists in a White House announcement last Friday, Jan. 3.…
December 12, 2024
Surviving Neanderthal genes in modern genomes tell a story of thousands of years of interactions A new analysis of DNA from ancient modern humans (Homo sapiens) in Europe and Asia has determined, more precisely than ever, the time period during which Neanderthals interbred with modern humans, starting about 50,500 years ago and lasting about…
December 11, 2024
Ahmet Yildiz is a professor in the departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and Physics. The Yildiz laboratory combines biochemical and single-molecule biophysical techniques to understand how motor proteins move on microtubules long distances at fast speeds and produce the forces required to carry their cargo in a dense cytoplasm. QB3-Berkeley: Are there any recent…
November 04, 2024
We are sorry to share the sad news of the passing of a beloved colleague and prolific scholar, Alexander (Alex) Pines, Glenn T. Seaborg Professor Emeritus and Professor of the Graduate School. He was 79 years old. Alex was born in 1945 and grew up in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), where his lifelong passion for science,…
October 10, 2024
UC Berkeley researchers in two multi-institutional teams have won major awards from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to fund pioneering biomedical research. Projects in microbiome engineering and in implantable biologic drug delivery will receive up to $22.7 million and $34.9 million, respectively, from ARPA-H, a federal funding agency that supports transformative biomedical…
October 01, 2024
Leah Guthrie is an assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering. Her lab investigates the principles that govern microbial metabolism and signaling in the context of kidney homeostasis and disease using mass spectrometry, chemoinformatics, and molecular biology approaches. QB3-Berkeley: What’s the focus of your lab’s research? Leah Guthrie: Our lab focuses on understanding how the…
September 30, 2024
New tool removes motion artifacts when imaging dynamic samples. Imaging microscopic samples requires capturing multiple, sequential measurements, then using computational algorithms to reconstruct a single, high-resolution image. This process can work well when the sample is static, but if it’s moving — as is common with live, biological specimens — the final image may be…
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