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Jennifer Doudna, co-inventor of CRISPR Cas9 technology, or the ability to program genes using a special enzyme, spoke about the promises of this...Read more about CRISPR pioneer Jennifer Doudna shines hope on the future of genetic modification at SXSW

Berkeley chemistry professor Omar Yaghi and grad student Christian Diercks have paid homage to a critical G.N. Lewis paper a century after its publication. Writing in the March 3 issue of Science magazine, the authors extend Lewis’s 1916 analysis in “The Atom and the Molecule” to covalent-...Read more about Diercks, Yaghi commemorate seminal 1916 G.N. Lewis paper

Her Royal Highness Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan of Jordan was awarded a Chancellor’s Citation by Chancellor Nicholas Dirks. Professor Omar M. Yaghi has worked closely with Princess Sumaya over the past five years to re-engage the Jordanian diaspora community in scientific research to address...Read more about Jordanian princess, a science advocate, awarded a Chancellor’s Citation

Newsweek spoke with Doudna about the CRISPR-Cas9 technology ruling and what’s next...Read more about Meet the Scientist Bringing Gene Editing to Life: An Interview With Jennifer Doudna

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. patent application filed by the Doudna/Charpentier research group and the patents and applications filed by the Broad Institute are separately...Read more about Patent office determines UC, Broad Institute patent claims on CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing are separately patentable

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.Read more about CRISPR’s breakthrough problem

Berkeley Lab invention by Chang and Toste may lead to to dramatic improvements in applications from drug development to bioimaging.Read more about Chemicals Hitch a Ride onto New Protein for Better Compounds

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...Read more about Landry, Xu, and Zhang among researchers to receive CZ Biohub awards

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.Read more about Doudna awarded Japan Prize for invention of CRISPR gene editing

More than 2,300 faculty from California universities have signed an open letter to the Trump administration calling for sustained action on climate...Read more about UC, CSU faculty send open letter to Trump on climate change