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The IGI has awarded one of its first two Entrepreneurial Fellowships to Benjamin Oakes, a joint graduate student in the Doudna and Savage labs. Benjamin Oakes plans to improve CRISPR gene replacement. Also receiving the award is Dr. Alex Schultink, who will use the EFP funding to find disease...Read more about New entrepreneurial fellows: Business-minded scientists with big ideas

Ken Raymond, who, thanks to a new DOE grant and a successful startup, is finding his retirement busier than expected.Read more about Raymond wins new DOE grant

Evan Miller discusses how clever molecular design can create a cancer triple threat.Read more about (Near-Infra) Red Means STOP: Shutting Down Cancer with NIR Light

Carol Christ, who joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1970 as an assistant professor of Victorian literature, was confirmed today by the UC Board of Regents as the campus's 11th...Read more about UC Regents confirm Carol Christ as Berkeley’s 11th chancellor

UC Berkeley's Energy Biosciences Institute has entered into a five-year research agreement with Shell International Exploration and Production to fund research that meets the growing...Read more about EBI, Shell sign million partnership to fund new energy tech research

Jennifer Doudna, co-inventor of CRISPR Cas9 technology, or the ability to program genes using a special enzyme, spoke about the promises of this...Read more about CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna shines hope on the future of genetic modification at SXSW

Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi and grad student Christian Diercks have paid homage to a critical G.N. Lewis paper a century after its publication. Writing in the March 3 issue of Science magazine, the authors extend Lewis’s 1916 analysis in “The Atom and the Molecule” to covalent-...Read more about Diercks, Yaghi commemorate seminal 1916 G.N. Lewis paper

Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan of Jordan was awarded a Chancellor’s Citation by Chancellor Nicholas Dirks. Professor Omar M. Yaghi has worked closely with Princess Sumaya over the past five years to re-engage the Jordanian diaspora community in scientific research to address...Read more about Jordanian princess, a science advocate, awarded a Chancellor’s Citation

Newsweek spoke with Doudna about the CRISPR-Cas9 technology ruling and what’s next...Read more about Meet the Scientist Bringing Gene Editing to Life: An Interview With Jennifer Doudna

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today ruled that the inventions claimed in the pending U.S. patent application filed by the Doudna/Charpentier research group and the patents and applications filed by the Broad Institute are separately...Read more about Patent office determines UC, Broad Institute patent claims on CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing are separately patentable