September 14, 2022
Teams led by researchers from UC Berkeley, the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3), and Berkeley Lab have received a combined $11.6 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)…
August 31, 2022
New findings in microbes called cyanobacteria present new opportunities for plant science, bioengineering and environmental protection. UC Berkeley researchers and colleagues at Michigan State University, the University of South Bohemia…
August 29, 2022
According to the United Nations, less than a quarter of all U.S. electronic waste gets recycled. In 2021 alone, global e-waste surged at 57.4 million tons, and only 17.4% of…
June 29, 2022
Pancreatic cancer, though rare, is one of the deadliest of cancers, killing nearly 50,000 people yearly and doing so quickly, primarily because it metastasizes rapidly through the body. Barely one…
June 28, 2022
Coming from a long line of Iowa farmers, David Savage always thought he would do research to improve crops. That dream died in college, when it became clear that any genetic tweak…
February 04, 2022
A research team led by QB3-Berkeley faculty Ting Xu has demonstrated tiny concentric nanocircles that self-assemble into an optical material with precision and efficiency.
February 04, 2022
A study led by QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Daniel Rokhsar is the first to compare the chromosomal position of genes from diverse animals, allowing the ancestral organization to be inferred and rare changes in chromosome organization to be studied.
January 20, 2022
Scientists have long researched the interplay of how nature (genetics) and nurture (sensory experience following birth) shape our brains and make us who we are. In early brain development,…