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Ke Xu has been awarded a 2016 Packard Fellowship

The Cohen research team is using sensor technology to measure the concentrations of atmospheric gases at both local and global scales, and from that data develop computational models that describe the emission processes and rates that cause those obse

UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna, molecular biologist Robert Tijan and a team of researchers have expanded the role of the newly discovered CRISPR protein C2c2 that targets RNA instead of DNA.

Alum Jeremy Baskin finds new home as Cornell professor. (Photo courtesy Shaogeng Tang)

Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien, former Berkeley professor, has died.

Terry Rosen—alum, donor, commencement speaker and serial biotech entrepreneur—has launched another successful start up.

Michelle Chang has been awarded the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry. Jennifer Doudna has received The Biopolymers Murray Goodman Memorial Prize.

Chemistry professor Stephen Leone has won the 2017 American Chemical Society's Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology.

Metal-organic frameworks provide a new platform for solving the structure of hard-to-study samples.

For a simple compound that is central to almost every aspect of our existence, water remains fiendishly difficult to understand.

Chemistry professor Graham Fleming has been named an Honorable Foreign Member of the Chemical Society of Japan.

Fire-fighting foam containing highly fluorinated chemicals is contaminating drinking water supplies around many of the nation’s military bases, airports and industrial sites, according to a new study by UC Berkeley and Harvard University researchers.

To appreciate the magnitude of the advance that Zewail introduced to chemistry, one has to ponder the minuteness of the time intervals that he could routinely employ with his special lasers: a femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth of a second. It is one second divided by ten to the power of fifteen.

Ahmed H. Zewail, recipient of the 1999 Chemistry Nobel Prize, has died. He was 70.

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Rich Mathies proposed lab-on-a-chip Enceladus Organic Analyzer can sniff out one organic molecule in a billion others.

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