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Jennifer Doudna faces an uncommon challenge for a scientist at the top of her form and the forefront of her field: While she watches her work produce "breathtaking" advances in the understanding of human biology,...Read more about CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna struggles with the ethical implications of what she has wrought

Emanuel "Manny" Druga has been named the July 2017 recipient of the Chemistry Achievement Prize (CAP). Manny has been working at the College of Chemistry R&D shops as an electrician for the last 15 years. He...Read more about Emanuel Druga is the July 2017 recipient of the Chemistry Achievement Prize.

Check out the latest issue of Catalyst Magazine, featuring Omar Yaghi, David Graves, and much more! Read online with ISSUU or download a PDF...Read more about Catalyst Magazine Issue 12.1

With one eye on potential bioterrorism threats, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency today announced $65 million in funding to seven projects around the...Read more about Defense department pours million into making CRISPR safer

John Hartwig, and post-doc Konstantin Troshin came up with a quick and easy way to trial and analyze those interactions using an Excel spreadsheet and equipment most chemists already have in their labs. He calls it...Read more about Here's A New Way To Discover Chemical Reactions

The Department of Energy's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), was selected as one of four DOE Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs) to receive funding in support of innovative research on biofuels and bioproducts....Read more about DOE renews funding for Joint BioEnergy Institute at Berkeley Lab

Research now shows that the countermeasure viruses came up with — inhibitory proteins referred to as anti-CRISPRs — can be used to improve CRISPR-Cas9 as a gene-...Read more about Anti-CRISPR proteins decrease off-target side effects of CRISPR-Cas9

The Wall Street Journal interviews Jennifer Doudna for the Saturday Interview.Read more about The Gene Editors Are Only Getting Started

UC Berkeley and UC Riverside researchers have used CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technology to insert and spread genes designed to suppress wild insects, while at the...Read more about New gene-editing technique could drive out mosquito-borne disease

Principal investigator Peidong Yang, senior faculty scientist at Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, find tunable halide perovskites could usher in new generation of...Read more about New Class of ‘Soft’ Semiconductors Could Transform HD Displays