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Elemental sulfur, the most heavily used pesticide in California, may harm the respiratory health of children living near farms that use the pesticide, ...Read more about Heavily used pesticide linked to breathing problems in farmworkers’ children

Lin Lin, an assistant professor of mathematics, and Eric Neuscamman, an assistant professor of chemistry, have received 2017 Early...Read more about Young professors receive Early Career Awards from DOE

The Green Science Policy Institute recently launched sixclasses.org, a website featuring a series of four-minute videos on the "Six Classes" of chemicals that are known to harm human health and the environment.Read more about The Green Science Policy Institute launches video web series featuring the six classes of chemicals of concern.

Newsweek spoke with Jennifer Doudna co-discover of the breakthrough gene-editing technique, about how quickly the technology is advancing and the...Read more about Gene editing could stop cancer, diabetes and bioterrorism: An interview with CRISPR scientist Jennifer Doudna

UC Berkeley is hosting a two-day conference Aug. 16-17 that will bring together farmers, doctors, patients, environmentalists, consumers, nonprofits, community leaders and scientists to discuss potential applications of CRISPR technology, ranging from human and animal health to agriculture and...Read more about Aug. 16-17 CRISPRcon to focus on societal issues of gene editing

"It feels a bit like a 'one small step for (hu)mans, one giant leap for (hu)mankind' moment," Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist who helped discover the gene-editing method used, called CRISPR-Cas9, said in an email.

...Read more about In breakthrough, scientists edit a dangerous mutation from genes in human embryos

Chemistry professor Evan Williams and his co-investigators are the recipients of the NeuroNex Innovation Award for research on Chemical and Genetic Methods to Measure and Manipulate Neurons with Light.Read more about Evan Miller receives NeuroNex Innovation Award

Peidong Yang and fellow scientists discover unique thermoelectric properties in cesium tin iodide.Read more about A semiconductor that can beat the heat

The University of California, along with the University of Vienna and Emmanuelle Charpentier, yesterday filed its opening brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal...Read more about UC files appeal to revive CRISPR patent interference

The paper, which will be published online July 20 in Science by Jennifer Doudna and her research group, used electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography, performed at the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and the HHMI...Read more about Researchers discover how CRISPR proteins find their target