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Multibeam Ion Microscope Enables Sub-10-Nanometer Imaging and Fabrication

October 02, 2014

Researchers in QB3-Berkeley’s Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center (BNC) are celebrating the September 30 arrival of a Zeiss ORION NanoFab microscope, a multibeam instrument that researchers will use for unprecedented investigations of matter. Purchased with a $2 million NSF grant, the new tool is the first of its kind at an academic institution in the U.S. The…

Genome Engineering Pioneers Gather at Berkeley

September 04, 2014

New discoveries in genome engineering continue to emerge at a breakneck pace. Some of the world’s leading experts met at UC Berkeley’s second annual Re-writing Genomes symposium on August 25 to explore how genome-editing technologies promise to transform basic research as well as biomedical engineering. Berkeley faculty members and QB3 faculty affiliates Dirk Hockemeyer and Jennifer Doudna…

BNC to House NSF-Funded Nanoscale Microscope

September 17, 2013

Researchers using a new tool in QB3-Berkeley’s Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center (BNC) will investigate matter on an unprecedented scale, thanks to a $2 million NSF grant for the purchase and installation of a new ORION Nanofab microscope. Berkeley will be one of the first institutions in the U.S. to obtain a new generation of Focused Ion…