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October 28, 2020
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Bustamante awarded Biophysical Society Honors
October 14, 2020
Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Carlos Bustamante has been awarded the 2021 Biophysical Society (BPS) Kazuhiko Kinosita Award in Single-Molecule Biophysics.
Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna: Gene editing could make a better future
October 14, 2020
Rapid advances in gene-editing technology have a transformative potential to help cure disease and feed the world, but scientists must assure that the tools are not used for unethical purposes, new UC Berkeley Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna told reporters today.
UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
October 14, 2020
University of California, Berkeley, biochemist Jennifer Doudna today won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, sharing it with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier for the co-development of CRISPR-Cas9, a genome editing breakthrough that has revolutionized biomedicine.
Why you should stay single: The scientific benefits of using a single photon
October 08, 2020
Chemistry graduate student Kaydren Orcutt highlights how researchers can combine physics and biology, generating single photons in a bid to unentangle the mysteries of photosynthesis.
pH sensing protein reveals two new ways for cells to detect proton
September 30, 2020
Specialized cells in our bodies utilize protein nanosensors to regulate essential processes including our metabolism, heart rate, and breathing.
$14 million boost for Parkinson’s disease research
September 16, 2020
Two grants totaling nearly $14 million from Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s (ASAP) will jump-start research at UC Berkeley into the molecular and genetic causes of Parkinson’s disease.
Vance honored with Cancer Research Institute Award
September 10, 2020
Russell Vance, Molecular and Cell Biology professor of Immunology and Pathogenesis has been awarded the Cancer Research Institute’s 2020 William B. Cley Award for his research and discoveries in immunology.