September 23, 2021
This story features GenEdit, a former QB3 Garage@Berkeley company. The incubator space in Stanley Hall features more than 800 square feet of laboratory space for startup companies. Kunwoo Lee was a graduate student at UC-Berkeley when gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna — who happened to work in the same building where he studied — published a…
May 19, 2021
Paul Lum, the managing director of the Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center (BNC), talks about the history of the facility, its unique equipment, and the BNC’s research and culture.
July 07, 2020
In early March, YourChoice Therapeutics CEO Akash Bakshi was typing out his investor update when he tucked in a question at the bottom. His company’s progress toward using niclosamide, a medication normally used to treat tapeworms, as a new kind of birth control that stopped sperm from moving was going well — the startup had…