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.
February 15, 2017
UC Berkeley News
February 13, 2017
C&EN
If the CRISPR gene editing system is to live up to its disease-curing potential, researchers must devise a plan to deliver it into the body.
February 9, 2017
Berkeley Lab
Berkeley Lab invention by Chang and Toste may lead to to dramatic improvements in applications from drug development to bioimaging.
February 8, 2017
UC Berkeley News
Thirteen UC Berkeley faculty, seven of them women, are among 47 new investigators chosen by the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub to receive up to $1.5 million each over the next five years to conduct cutting-edge biomedical research — with no strings attached.
February 2, 2017
UC Berkeley News
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier were awarded the Japan Prize today for their invention of the revolutionary gene-editing technology known as CRISPR-Cas9, which has swept into research labs around the world and is already yielding new therapies for cancer and hereditary diseases.
January 31, 2017
UC Berkeley News
More than 2,300 faculty from California universities have signed an open letter to the Trump administration calling for sustained action on climate change and urging the president to honor the country’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions a
January 27, 2017
LBNL News
Art Rosenfeld, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) Distinguished Scientist Emeritus who has been credited with being personally responsible for billions of dollars in energy savings, died Friday at his home in Berkeley, California. He was 90.
January 26, 2017
Two memorial videos have been posted in tribute to Nacho’s life and work, and they are now available for viewing directly at https://youtu.be/BLhcZajlNGc and https://youtu.be/VJsnp4UDBUY.January 25, 2017
UC Berkeley News
An initiative launched two years ago by UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco to use CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to develop new disease therapies is expanding into research on the planet’s major crops and poorly understood microbiomes, with plans to invest $125 million in these areas over the next five years.
National Science Foundation
Bryan McCloskey
NAS Online
Armand Paul Alivisatos will receive the 2017 NAS Award in Chemical Sciences. Alivisatos is a pioneer in the field of nanotechnology, with work that has had important ramifications for the development of renewable energy, biomedical imaging, light-emitting devices, and other fields.
January 10, 2017
Berkeley Research
Jeffrey Long's research team with support of Bakar Fellows program focuses on new advances in CO2 capture.
CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences)
January 9, 2017
C&EN News
December 22, 2016
UC Berkeley News
UC Berkeley scientists have discovered simple CRISPR systems similar to CRISPR-Cas9 — a gene-editing tool that has revolutionized biology — in previously unexplored bacteria that have eluded efforts to grow them in the laboratory.
December 13, 2016
UC Berkeley News
November 23, 2016
The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) has awarded one of three 2016 Academy Prizes to Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi.
November 22, 2016
The New England Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS) has awarded Berkeley chemistry professor Gabor Somorjai its prestigious 2016 Richards Medal.
November 21, 2016
Chemistry professor Tom Maimone has been selected as one of two recipients of the prestigious 2016 Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry.