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.
October 28, 2020
We asked QB3-Berkeley faculty and staff to answer questions about themselves and what they love about the work they do.
October 14, 2020
Rapid advances in gene-editing technology have a transformative potential to help cure disease and feed the world, but scientists must assure that the tools are not used for unethical purposes, new UC Berkeley Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna told reporters today.
October 14, 2020
University of California, Berkeley, biochemist Jennifer Doudna today won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, sharing it with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier for the co-development of CRISPR-Cas9, a genome editing breakthrough that has revolutionized biomedicine.
October 08, 2020
Chemistry graduate student Kaydren Orcutt highlights how researchers can combine physics and biology, generating single photons in a bid to unentangle the mysteries of photosynthesis.
September 30, 2020
Specialized cells in our bodies utilize protein nanosensors to regulate essential processes including our metabolism, heart rate, and breathing.
September 16, 2020
Two grants totaling nearly $14 million from Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) will jump-start research at UC Berkeley into the molecular and genetic causes of Parkinson’s disease.
September 10, 2020
Russell Vance, Molecular and Cell Biology professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis has been awarded the Cancer Research Institute’s 2020 William B. Cley Award for his research and discoveries in immunology.
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