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.
September 07, 2021
UC Berkeley’s Ting Xu and her students have come up with one solution for the global problem of single-use plastics: embed enzymes in the plastic, so that once the bag or cup is no longer wanted, it will self-destruct with a little heat and water.
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 23, 2021
The SARS-CoV-2 virus contains a gene that codes for a strange protein that could be a good target for drugs to fight COVID-19 and possibly other coronavirus infections, according to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley.
June 01, 2021
The lack of widely available testing has been a major roadblock to containing a virus that people can spread without showing, or even feeling, any symptoms. A COVID-19 test is Dan Fletcher’s latest transformation of cell phones into mobile diagnostic tools.
April 01, 2021
CRISPR-Cas9 treatment of sickle cell disease has been approved for clinical trials by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Researchers will now test CRISPR-Cas9 on humans to directly correct the mutation in the beta-globin gene responsible for sickle cell disease.
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.
January 21, 2021
In a paper published in the journal Cell Systems, the UC Berkeley researchers describe a novel technique, based on a microfluidic platform, for unraveling and imaging lengthy strands of DNA.