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Jennifer Doudna and fellow CRISPR scientists are strongly discouraging their colleagues from attempting any germline editing in humans.

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Chemistry professor Richmond Sarpong is the winner of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Synthetic Chemistry Award for 2015.Read more about Sarpong wins 2015 RSC Synthetic Organic Chemistry Award

Berkeley researchers develop breakthrough technique for non-invasive nano-scale imaging.

Read the full article.Read more about Ginsberg's CLAIRE technique brings electron microscopy to soft materials

Three College of Chemistry assistant professors, chemistry’s Evan Miller and Ke Xu, along with CBE’s Wenjun Zhang, are the recipients of awards from the Hellman Fellows Fund.Read more about Three CoC professors receive awards from Hellman Fellows Fund

Whether you’re brainy, brawny or both, you may someday benefit from a drug found to rejuvenate aging brain and muscle tissue.

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Jennifer Doudna's fundamental discoveries about the CRISPR/Cas9 system are leading to new tools for DNA editing that are revolutionizing genomics research.

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Chemistry professor A. Paul Alivisatos has been elected to the American Philosophical Society in the category of Mathematical and Physical Sciences.

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Berkeley start-up hopes to extinguish the danger in lithium-ion batteries

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The National Academy of Sciences, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious scientific organization, has elected five UC Berkeley faculty members to its ranks, raising the number of members on campus to 143.

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David Schaffer harnesses evolution to improve drug delivery.

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