November 10, 2025
Worldwide, more than 500,000 children under age five die each year from gastrointestinal bacterial infections, largely in communities lacking safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene infrastructure. To address this public health threat, scientists need to better understand how these pathogens spread. Now, a team led by Amy Pickering, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, has discovered…
November 03, 2025
Model helps identify nanoparticles that can deliver mRNA directly into heart muscle cells Cardiovascular disease continues to be the leading cause of death worldwide. But advances in heart-failure therapeutics have stalled, largely due to the difficulty of delivering treatments at the cellular level. Now, a UC Berkeley-led team of researchers may have solved this delivery…
October 21, 2025
The new members have worked on mobile phone microscopes and health disparities. The National Academy of Medicine has added two UC Berkeley faculty members to its ranks of scholars, the academy announced Monday. Election to the academy is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine, recognizing individuals who have…
October 09, 2025
Lenny Teytelman, PhD, is the founder and president of protocols.io, a platform created to make scientific methods more accessible, transparent, and reproducible. Acquired by Springer Nature in 2023, protocols.io has grown from a small startup into a global community used by thousands of researchers worldwide. Teytelman completed his PhD in genetics and computational biology at…
October 07, 2025
The Nobel Prize committee honored Clarke “for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit.” These circuits were forerunners of the qubits in many quantum computers. John Clarke, an emeritus professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for his…
October 03, 2025
For many people, viruses are a scourge; they cause illness and even death, and the mere mention of them, whether they are harmless or cause the flu, sends many reaching for the disinfectant wipes. But to Britt Glaunsinger, viruses are a wonder. “I love efficiency, and viruses are masters at efficiency,” says Glaunsinger, a professor…
October 01, 2025
Andrew Dillin is a professor of immunology and molecular medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB). He would be in the Department of Neuroscience, too, if he wasn’t so dang busy. In addition to his regular teaching and research duties, Dillin is developing the Division of Immunology and Molecular Medicine’s new curriculum…
September 04, 2025
UC Berkeley’s Wenjun Zhang is trying to understand how oral bacteria make biofilms, aka plaque, so she can distinguish the good from the bad — and tip the balance to prevent cavities. If Wenjun Zhang has her way, no one will ever have to brush or floss again. Zhang, a UC Berkeley professor of chemical…