December 08, 2021
The wait for UC Berkeley’s bold new home for research and innovation is nearly over. After two years of construction, the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub (BBH) is scheduled to open in February 2022.
December 06, 2021
The UC Berkeley group that invented the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology nearly 10 years ago has found a way to add or modify genes within a community of many different species simultaneously, opening the door to what could be called “community editing.”
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.