June 11, 2020
Scientists at UC Berkeley’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, UCSF, and UC Davis have formed a Tri-Institutional Partnership in Microbiome Research (TrIP Microbiome) to leverage their collective expertise.
May 19, 2020
Seven new COVID-19 research projects at UC Berkeley can turn up new diagnostics and potential treatments for COVID-19 within months.
May 13, 2020
The COVID-19 pop up lab started by Jennifer Doudna and other scientists from UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) has now branched out to assessing a broader range of people potentially exposed to the coronavirus, including front-line responders who are at risk of infection daily.
April 29, 2020
UC Berkeley faculty Robert Tjian and Xavier Darzacq encourage labs in other UC Berkeley buildings to start producing sanitizer for places in the East Bay and San Francisco that serve populations whose safety has been largely ignored as the COVID-19 pandemic rips through the state.
April 27, 2020
In a new report published in the Journal of Urban Health, public health experts and epidemiologists, including UC Berkeley Dr. Lee Riley, provide eight urgent recommendations for reducing the impact of COVID-19 on people living in poverty.
April 27, 2020
In this virtual Q&A with Science at Cal, professor Britt Glaunsinger explains how viruses spread in the body.
March 30, 2020
Scientists at UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) are creating a diagnostic lab with the capability to process more than 1,000 patient samples per day.
March 18, 2020
UC Berkeley researchers, including David Schaffer and Lydia Sohn, have created a new technique that utilizes photolithography and programmable DNA to rapidly “print” two-dimensional arrays of cells and proteins that mimic a variety of cellular environments in the body.