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Chemists Peidong Yang and Kelsey Sakimoto have turned bacteria into efficient solar collectors to convert carbon dioxide into acetic acid, which serves as food for other...Read more about Cyborg bacteria turn sunlight into useful chemicals

Jennifer Doudna and Feng Zhang have received separate grants from the National Human Genome Research Institute for CRISPR technology-based projects they both say have the potential to advance the tool's usefulness for human health purposes.

The University of California, Berkeley's Doudna...Read more about Doudna awarded NHGRI grant for CRISPR-based research

On Wednesday and Thursday (August 16-17, 2017) UC Berkeley welcomed about 300 people—scientists, CEOs, farmers, regulators, conservationists, and interested citizens—to its campus to ...Read more about Crispr fans dream of a populist future for gene editing

Gloria Ortiz of the Evan Miller Research Group has is one of 39 new Gilliam fellows selected by The Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The award is given to exceptional doctoral...Read more about Evan Miller Research Group graduate student Gloria Ortiz wins HHMI Fellowship Award

Elemental sulfur, the most heavily used pesticide in California, may harm the respiratory health of children living near farms that use the pesticide, ...Read more about Heavily used pesticide linked to breathing problems in farmworkers’ children

Lin Lin, an assistant professor of mathematics, and Eric Neuscamman, an assistant professor of chemistry, have received 2017 Early...Read more about Young professors receive Early Career Awards from DOE

The Green Science Policy Institute recently launched sixclasses.org, a website featuring a series of four-minute videos on the "Six Classes" of chemicals that are known to harm human health and the environment.Read more about The Green Science Policy Institute launches video web series featuring the six classes of chemicals of concern.

Newsweek spoke with Jennifer Doudna co-discover of the breakthrough gene-editing technique, about how quickly the technology is advancing and the...Read more about Gene editing could stop cancer, diabetes and bioterrorism: An interview with CRISPR scientist Jennifer Doudna

UC Berkeley is hosting a two-day conference Aug. 16-17 that will bring together farmers, doctors, patients, environmentalists, consumers, nonprofits, community leaders and scientists to discuss potential applications of CRISPR technology, ranging from human and animal health to agriculture and...Read more about Aug. 16-17 CRISPRcon to focus on societal issues of gene editing

"It feels a bit like a 'one small step for (hu)mans, one giant leap for (hu)mankind' moment," Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist who helped discover the gene-editing method used, called CRISPR-Cas9, said in an email.

...Read more about In breakthrough, scientists edit a dangerous mutation from genes in human embryos