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M. thermoacetica first made its debut as the first non-photosensitive bacterium to carry out artificial photosynthesis in a study led by Peidong Yang, a professor in UC Berkeley’s College of Chemistry. By attaching light-absorbing nanoparticles made of cadmium sulfide (CdS) to the...Read more about Harvesting solar fuels through a bacterium’s unusual appetite for gold

As scientists march closer to using CRISPR gene editing to treat diseases, the U.S. Department of Defense is prepping for the possibility of a more nefarious use of CRISPR: its weaponization to harm humans, animals, or crops.Read more about New CRISPR inhibitors found with help from U.S. Defense Department funding

Photo: Frances H. Arnold, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at Caltech, is one of three winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. (Photo by Caltech)

When Frances Arnold first came to UC Berkeley as a graduate student...Read more about Chemistry Nobel goes to UC Berkeley Ph.D. Frances Arnold

UC Berkeley's College of Chemistry was well represented among the winners of this year's ACS National Awards.Read more about College of Chemistry faculty and alums among ACS 2019 National Award winners

Doctoral candidate Osowiecki is among 8 UC Berkeley graduate students named 2019 Siebel Scholars.Read more about Chemistry Ph.D. Candidate Wojciech Osowiecki named 2019 Siebel Scholar

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Elsevier and the Board of Executive Editors of Elsevier’s Tetrahedron journal series have announced that the 2018 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry has been awarded to Professors...Read more about John Hartwig awarded 2018 Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry

The promise of Quantum Computers will unlock a new dimension of computing capabilities that are not possible today with classical computers, regardless of the size, compute power, or parallelization.Read more about Atom Computing receives VC funding to create a radical new paradigm in quantum computing

Professor Jennifer Doudna ( seen here with (left) UH Hilo Interim Chancelor Marcia Sakai and (right) UH Hilo Chancelor Emerita Rose Tseng presented the inaugural UH Hilo Rose and Raymond Tseng Distinguished Lecture....Read more about Professor Jennifer Doudna speaks at UH Hilo about her CRISPR discovery

Paul VerNooy (Ph.D. Chem 1991) and five fellow scientists from DuPont (including Alan Carroll, Kenneth Hang, Brian Laughlin, Kurt Mikeska, and Charlie Torardi) have received the 2018 Heroes award from the American Chemical Society (ACS). The DuPont scientists are honored for inventing...Read more about ACS awards alum Paul VerNooy and DuPont colleagues with Heroes of Chemistry award

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a revolutionary new class of crystalline solids that can be designed to trap myriad kinds of matter, including greenhouse gases, or to be used as nanosized drug carriers. They can also pull water from desert air.Read more about Meet Metal-Organic Frameworks, Chemistry’s New Miracle Materials