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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today ruled that the inventions claimed in the pending U.S. patent application filed by the Doudna/Charpentier research group and the patents and applications filed by the Broad Institute are separately...Read more about Patent office determines UC, Broad Institute patent claims on CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing are separately patentable

If the CRISPR gene editing system is to live up to its disease-curing potential, researchers must devise a plan to deliver it into the body.Read more about CRISPR’s breakthrough problem

Berkeley Lab invention by Chang and Toste may lead to to dramatic improvements in applications from drug development to bioimaging.Read more about Chemicals Hitch a Ride onto New Protein for Better Compounds

Thirteen UC Berkeley faculty, seven of them women, are among 47 new investigators chosen by the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub to receive up to $1.5 million each over the next...Read more about Landry, Xu, and Zhang among researchers to receive CZ Biohub awards

Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Japan Prize today for their invention of the revolutionary gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9, which has swept into research labs around the world and is already yielding new therapies for cancer and hereditary diseases.Read more about Doudna awarded Japan Prize for invention of CRISPR gene editing

More than 2,300 faculty from California universities have signed an open letter to the Trump administration calling for sustained action on climate...Read more about UC, CSU faculty send open letter to Trump on climate change

Art Rosenfeld, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Distinguished Scientist Emeritus who has been credited with being personally responsible for billions of dollars in energy savings,...Read more about Art Rosenfeld, California’s Godfather of Energy Efficiency, Dies at 90

An initiative launched two years ago by UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco to use CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to develop new disease therapies is expanding into research on the planet’s major crops and poorly understood microbiomes, with plans to invest $125 million in these areas over the next five...Read more about CRISPR research institute expands into agriculture, microbiology

Undergraduate Dean Marcin Majda has announced the students on the Fall 2016 Honor List.Read more about Fall 2016 Dean's Honor List announced