December 10, 2020
CRISPR-Cas9 makes it easy to knock out or tweak a single gene to determine its effect on an organism or cell, or even another gene. But what if you could perform several thousand experiments at once, using CRISPR to tweak every gene in the genome individually and quickly see the impact of each?
December 10, 2020
Jennifer Doudna’s trip to Stockholm had to be postponed, but a delegation from Sweden delivered the Nobel Prize medal and diploma to her doorstep on Dec. 8.
December 10, 2020
A new genetic approach can accelerate the study of phage-microbe interactions with implications for health, agriculture, and climate.
December 08, 2020
Markita Landry, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at UC Berkeley, has received the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Frontiers of Imaging grant to support her research in deep tissue imaging.
December 07, 2020
Twenty years ago, nobody could have foreseen how vital telemedicine would become for safely delivering health care during a pandemic. Nor did they anticipate the urgent need for a statewide network of high-tech cameras to alert first responders to fast moving wildfires.
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.
December 04, 2020
New research shows how plants directly recognize pathogens, and how to help them fight off other attackers.
December 01, 2020
Graduate student Kaydren Orcutt describes how a new technique, PA-2DEV, was used to study the states involved with harvesting green light by green plants and algae.