March 02, 2021
The more information that is available, the more confusing science seems to become. Studies contradict one another or new information emerges, and earlier studies are no longer valid. How can a news consumer determine what is reputable and what is questionable?
March 01, 2021
Tracy Teal, Ph.D., the executive director of Dryad, speaks about her transition from doing basic research to working in a nonprofit setting.
February 25, 2021
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Basic Sciences category has gone in this thirteenth edition to Paul Alivisatos and Michael Grätzel.
February 22, 2021
In eukaryotes, gene expression was long held to be “monocistronic,” which means that a single gene makes messenger RNA that then encodes a single protein. In a new study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of researchers in professor Sabeeha Merchant‘s lab in the Department of Plant and Microbial Biology has… More
February 05, 2021
What do researchers do when they need to conduct an experiment using equipment that their lab doesn’t own? Core facilities are like a library, lending access to varieties of tools and instruments, from microscopes to lasers to mass spectrometers.
February 04, 2021
A more transmissible variant of the coronavirus, first detected in the United Kingdom, has shown up in two UC Berkeley students, as the state announced at least 133 new cases of the variant statewide.
February 03, 2021
Gary Lee, Ph.D. is the Chief Scientific Officer at Senti Biosciences and former VP of Cell Therapy at Sangamo Therapeutics. Read about his experience in the biotechnology sphere and how graduate students can prepare for a career in industry.
January 27, 2021
From isonitriles to biofilms to potential anti-TB drug targets! UC Berkeley scientists from the Zhang lab are exploring the mechanism and role of the isonitrile-forming enzyme, Rv0097, with relation to virulence in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Graduate student Antonio Del Rio Flores discusses ongoing work with Rv0097.