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Jennifer Doudna, professor and co-inventor of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, speaks with Susan Koskinen, head of the Life and Health Sciences Library Division, at the Bioscience & Natural Resources Library on Nov. 14...Read more about Life, gene editing, and rock ’n’ roll
Professor Omar M. Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Chair and Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley was presented with the Albert Einstein World Award at a ceremony today in Amsterdam at Leiden University. This prize is sponsored by the World Cultural Council.Read more about Omar Yaghi receives the 2017 Albert Einstein World Award of Science prize
Photo left to right: Meghna Rajendran, Sanya Sehgal, Rajashree Bhattavharya, Mcgregor Stadmiller, and Richard Lin. Image courtesy of AIChE
The UC Berkeley ChemE squad has won the 2017 National Chemical Engineering Jeopardy Championship at the AIChE Student Conference. This version of the...Read more about Berkeley team wins 2017 National ChemE Jeopardy Championship
Almost 300 science writers and journalists from 70 countries spent Sunday getting to know UC Berkeley's best scientific minds as part of the five-day World Conference of Science...Read more about World science journalists explore Berkeley’s best
In a new study, appearing in the November 2017 issue of Nature Materials, a research team led by UC Berkeley Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics, Naomi S. Ginsberg, has announced the development and...Read more about Tracking long-range energy flow on its native nanometer and picosecond scales
Assistant Professor Tom Maimone has been named as one of three recipients of the 2017 Eli Lilly Grantee Award.Read more about Maimone wins 2017 Eli Lilly Grantee Award
UC Berkeley ranked first in chemistry and retains its standing as the world’s No. 1 public and fourth-best university overall in U.S. News & World Report.Read more about UC Berkeley rated world’s top public and fourth-best overall by U.S. News
Nobel Laureate Yuan T. Lee, an emeritus professor at Berkeley who won the Nobel Prize for research in particle chemistry in 1986, and was the first Taiwanese Nobel Prize laureate, will speak as part of a group of laureates at the...Read more about Nobel Laureate Yuan T. Lee to speak on campus at international symposium exploring Nobel-caliber research
Podcast on the development of Crispr, and the ethical questions raised by new genome editing techniques.Read more about Book Club: A Crack in Creation
Researchers have discovered how Cas proteins are able to recognize their target locations with such great specificity.Read more about The CRISPR target-recognition mechanism
