January 08, 2026
Key Takeaways John Clarke, a former scientist at Berkeley Lab, shared the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovering quantum tunneling in an electric chip. This research, conducted at Berkeley Lab in the 1980s by Clarke and co-laureates Michel Devoret and John Martinis, was supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Science. The team’s…
January 01, 2026
Findings could lead to eco-friendly plastics and other materials UC Berkeley professor Ting Xu has spent more than seven years trying to figure out how to design synthetic polymers with protein-like behaviors. Now, she and a team of researchers have unlocked “design rules” that upend long-held views on polymers and could pave the way for eco-friendly plastics…
November 20, 2025
Ahead of his Professional in Residence visit on December 3, I connected with Bill Burkholder, science program director at Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco (CZ Biohub). We chatted about his journey through science, staying motivated in the face of adversity, and what excites him about his work. Graduate students and postdocs can register for Burkholder’s…
November 10, 2025
Worldwide, more than 500,000 children under age five die each year from gastrointestinal bacterial infections, largely in communities lacking safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure. To address this public health threat, scientists need to better understand how these pathogens spread. Now, a team led by Amy Pickering, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has discovered…
October 21, 2025
The new members have worked on mobile phone microscopes and health disparities. The National Academy of Medicine has added two UC Berkeley faculty members to its ranks of scholars, the academy announced Monday. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, recognizing individuals who have…
October 09, 2025
Lenny Teytelman, PhD, is the founder and president of protocols.io, a platform created to make scientific methods more accessible, transparent, and reproducible. Acquired by Springer Nature in 2023, protocols.io has grown from a small startup into a global community used by thousands of researchers worldwide. Teytelman completed his PhD in genetics and computational biology at…
October 01, 2025
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…
September 04, 2025
UC Berkeley’s Wenjun Zhang is trying to understand how oral bacteria make biofilms, aka plaque, so she can distinguish the good from the bad — and tip the balance to prevent cavities. If Wenjun Zhang has her way, no one will ever have to brush or floss again. Zhang, a UC Berkeley professor of chemical…