December 04, 2020
Scientists at UC Berkeley and Gladstone Institutes have developed a new CRISPR-based COVID-19 diagnostic test that, with the help of a smartphone camera, can provide a positive or negative result in 15 to 30 minutes.
December 04, 2020
New research shows how plants directly recognize pathogens, and how to help them fight off other attackers.
December 03, 2020
Sanjay Kumar, QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate and professor of bioengineering, is one of five Berkeley scholars to be elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the world’s largest scientific societies.
December 01, 2020
Graduate student Kaydren Orcutt describes how a new technique, PA-2DEV, was used to study the states involved with harvesting green light by green plants and algae.
November 19, 2020
Two UC Berkeley alumni have developed an FDA-approved COVID-19 home test kit.
November 17, 2020
MCB Professor of Neurobiology David Schaffer has been awarded the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’ (AIChE) 2020 Andreas Acrivos Professional Progress Award.
November 17, 2020
Madeline Zoltek, a graduate student in the Schepartz Lab at QB3-Berkeley, explores how a new Center for Chemical Innovation is harnessing the chemistry of a living cell to design novel chemical polymers.
November 05, 2020
Scientists at UC Berkeley launched a new pop-up lab after months of refining and optimizing a rapid and low-cost new technique to test wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.