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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

Armand Paul Alivisatos will receive the 2017 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences. Alivisatos is a pioneer in the field of nanotechnology, with work that has had important ramifications for the development of renewable energy, biomedical imaging, light-emitting devices, and other fields.Read more about Alivisatos to receive the 2017 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences

Bryan McCloskey awarded grant for project to generate fundamental knowledge in the field of electrochemical engineering that is critical to a number of energy conversion and storage technologies.Read more about McCloskey selected for NSF Career Award

Jeffrey Long's research team with support of Bakar Fellows program focuses on new advances in CO2 capture.Read more about A Chain Reaction to Spare the Air

CIRES/NOAA scientist studies atmospheric particles and climate, air quality.Read more about Cohen group alum Anne Perring receives prestigious PECASE award

UC Berkeley scientists have discovered simple CRISPR systems similar to CRISPR-Cas9 — a gene-editing tool that has revolutionized biology — in previously unexplored bacteria that have eluded efforts to grow them in the laboratory.Read more about Compact CRISPR systems found in some of world’s smallest microbes

Chemist and nanotechnology pioneer Paul Alivisatos, bioengineer Amy Herr and chemical engineer Enrique Iglesia – were among 175 distinguished academic inventors...Read more about Berkeley innovators named fellows of National Academy of Inventors