July 16, 2020
While the DNA-cutting proteins central to Jennifer Doudna’s CRISPR-Cas9 and related gene-editing tools originally came from bacteria, a newfound variety of Cas proteins apparently evolved in viruses that infect bacteria.
July 14, 2020
A team of researchers from Jennifer Doudna’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) are using CRISPR genome editing to alter cassava, a worldwide staple crop that naturally produces the precursor of cyanide.
July 09, 2020
By applying ideas from theoretical physics, researchers are starting to develop a unified understanding of how genes are regulated.
July 07, 2020
Professor David Schaffer has been selected to serve as the next director of Berkeley’s California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3-Berkeley)
June 30, 2020
Scientists from Jennifer Doudna’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), the same UC Berkeley group that rapidly opened up a pop-up COVID-19 testing laboratory in March, are now testing a quicker and cost-efficient way to obtain patient samples through saliva.
June 25, 2020
A new research by UC Berkeley engineers, including Sanjay Kumar a professor of bioengineering and chemical and biomolecular engineering, has shed light on how tumor cells adhere to and move through brain tissue.
June 25, 2020
UC Berkeley researchers, including QB3-Berkeley faculty Teresa Head-Gordon and Jennifer Listgarten, win funding from the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and other emerging diseases.
