March 15, 2021
Acclaimed biographer Walter Isaacson comes out with his new biography “The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race,” which focuses on biotechnology and one of today’s scientific luminaries: UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna, winner of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
March 11, 2021
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March 10, 2021
Mary West, the director of the Cell and Tissue Analysis Facility and the High Throughput Screening Facility, explains how core facilities increase researchers’ access to equipment and highlights how these facilities play a crucial role in supporting labs’ work during campus COVID-19 restrictions.
March 02, 2021
The more information that is available, the more confusing science seems to become. Studies contradict one another or new information emerges, and earlier studies are no longer valid. How can a news consumer determine what is reputable and what is questionable?
March 01, 2021
Tracy Teal, Ph.D., the executive director of Dryad, speaks about her transition from doing basic research to working in a nonprofit setting.
February 25, 2021
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Paul Alivisatos and Michael Grätzel.
February 22, 2021
Research from Sabeeha Merchant’s lab uncovered that, among two species of green algae (Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and Chromochloris zofingiensis), two or more genes are encoded on a single molecule of mRNA.
February 05, 2021
What do researchers do when they need to conduct an experiment using equipment that their lab doesn’t own? Core facilities are like a library, lending access to varieties of tools and instruments, from microscopes to lasers to mass spectrometers.
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