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Professor Kristala L. Jones Prather. Photo courtesy MIT.

Metabolic engineers have a problem: cells are selfish. The scientists want to use microbes to produce chemical compounds for industrial applications. The microbes prefer to concentrate on their own growth.

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A reaction that kicks out a single nitrogen, oxygen or sulfur atom from six-membered rings using only blue light has been developed by US scientists.

The method involves breaking the C–N, C–O or C–S bond in saturated heterocycles...Read more about Using light-initiated radical reaction to break the carbon-heteroatom bond

Invention Interview with Chris Chang: Molecular Iron Electrocatalyst for the Reduction of Carbon Dioxide (2021)Read more about Chris Chang discusses molecular iron electrocatalyst for the reduction of carbon dioxide

Liliana Rojas is a first-year student majoring in chemical engineering at UC Berkeley. (Photo by Brittany Hosea-Small)

Liliana Rojas states, “In high school, I knew I wanted to study chemistry in college. Chemistry is all around us, literally everywhere. I will be...Read more about We are all made of the same components

This is an excerpt of an article in Nano Letters by Peidong Yang, S.K. and Angela Chan Distinguished...Read more about Liquid Sunlight: The Evolution of Photosynthetic Biohybrids

On the Cover: Artist rendering of second harmonic generation spectroscopy in the extreme ultraviolet state. Illustration by Ella Marushenko. (Nano Letters, Vol 21, No 14)

(SHG) spectroscopy in the...Read more about UC Berkeley researchers illuminate material complexity with nonlinear x-ray spectroscopy

Excerpt from "John ‘Jack’ Gofman. Researcher and Social Activist. ‘Fair-haired Boy’ and ‘Enemy Within’" American Journal of Cardiology,

...Read more about John Gofman: Medical school to nuclear chemistry at UC Berkeley

UC Berkeley researchers have discovered a compound that promotes bacterial adhesion on teeth, which can lead to dental plaque and cavities. Photo courtesy of Jonathan Borba (...Read more about A mouth full of microbes: UC Berkeley researchers discover compound that can cause tooth decay

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UC San Francisco researchers have leveraged two new molecules, one of which is currently in clinical oncology trials, to devise a dual-drug therapy for alcohol use disorder (AUD), without the side effects or complications associated with current...Read more about Dual-drug therapy shows promise for treating alcohol use disorder

Alumni Robert Vold (Ph.D. '35, Chem) and Marjorie Vold née Young (Ph.D. '36, Chem). Unknown photographer and date. Photo courtesy Tom Aiken.

Marjorie Jean Young (1913 – 1991) was born in...Read more about In Memoriam: Alumna Marjorie (Young) Vold