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.
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.
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