October 13, 2021
Graduate student John Berude highlights a new discovery from the Portnoy lab at UC Berkeley that helps scientists understand how food-borne pathogens know when they’ve reached their target.
July 28, 2021
Scientific interventions for tackling humanity’s addiction to plastic are hoping to make breakthroughs that could help restore the environment in a post-pandemic future.
July 21, 2021
Chemical biologists in the Wenjun Zhang Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, have discovered compound mutanofactin-697. This compound is crucial in the development of cavities induced by Streptococcus mutans and may serve as a target in the prevention and treatment of dental caries.
June 02, 2021
Postdoctoral scholar Briana Van Treeck examines how scientists are exploiting the unique abilities of an enzyme to increase throughput and decrease bias in RNA sequencing.
May 05, 2021
Graduate student Maria McSharry explores the Science Education Journal Club and founder Danielle Spitzer’s efforts to promote evidence-based teaching strategies on campus.
April 13, 2021
A recent work published by the Schepartz laboratory at the UC Berkeley Department of Chemistry explores how a short helical protein can facilitate the delivery of proteins into cells, potentially offering scientists a streamlined method to efficiently deliver therapeutics to patients
March 25, 2021
Graduate student Riley Fricke sits down with Jeff Pelton, the manager of QB3-Berkeley’s 900 MHz NMR Facility, to discuss the facility and recent research that NMR spectroscopy has helped support.
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.