January 24, 2022
Christopher Hann-Soden discusses the breadth of services offered at UC Berkeley’s QB3 Genomics Core Facility. The QB3 Genomics core research facility is an umbrella term for three separate UC Berkeley research facilities devoted to different stages of high throughput sequencing and genomics experiments. Hundreds of researchers turn to QB3 Genomics including almost all researchers who…
December 14, 2021
Graduate student Leah Gulyas explores how one tiny coronavirus protein blockades host cells—and how a few simple changes can flip the script. Mission control! Mission control! Do you read me? While these lines might first bring to mind a movie scene of astronauts frantically trying to contact their home base following a disastrous event in…
December 15, 2020
Eight months after a Ph.D. student and a research assistant turned a UC Berkeley lab into a makeshift hand sanitizer factory, soon producing nearly 500 gallons a week for free distribution to Bay Area residents in need, the project has grown into a formidable mutual aid organization in California during the COVID-19 pandemic.
December 04, 2020
Scientists at UC Berkeley and Gladstone Institutes have developed a new CRISPR-based COVID-19 diagnostic test that, with the help of a smartphone camera, can provide a positive or negative result in 15 to 30 minutes.
November 19, 2020
Two UC Berkeley alumni have developed an FDA-approved COVID-19 home test kit.
November 05, 2020
Scientists at UC Berkeley launched a new pop-up lab after months of refining and optimizing a rapid and low-cost new technique to test wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
June 30, 2020
Scientists from Jennifer Doudna’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), the same UC Berkeley group that rapidly opened up a pop-up COVID-19 testing laboratory in March, are now testing a quicker and cost-efficient way to obtain patient samples through saliva.
June 29, 2020
UC Berkeley scientists join newly formed N95DECON team, a group of more than 100 scientists from 10+ institutions, whose aim is to share data-driven information about N95 respirator decontamination.