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A study analyzed data from two internal surveys of Ph.D. students at Berkeley, indicated that underrepresented groups engage in publishing activity at significantly lower rates than more represented male students. Berkeley's College of Chemistry was a noted exception.Read more about Publishing Gaps in STEM Ph.D. Programs

Scientists have developed a box that can convert low-humidity air into water, producing several litres every 12 hours. Omar Yaghi, a chemistry professor at University of...Read more about Water Out of Thin Air? Scientists Says It Can Be Done

The University of California, the University of Vienna and Emmanuelle Charpentier (collectively UC) on Wednesday, April 12, filed an appeal to overturn a decision by the Patent...Read more about UC appeals U.S. patent board decision on CRISPR-Cas9

An MOF synthesized by Omar Yaghi is being used by MIT engineers to construct a water harvester that sucks water from dry air and condenses it for drinking.Read more about Device pulls water from dry air, powered only by the sun

Recent research in the Leone lab gains new insights into how UVB light triggers a ring opening in cyclohexadiene.Read more about Making molecular movies with X-rays

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 228 members, including 188 fellows, five of whom are scientists at the Department of...Read more about Cate and Chang elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Chemistry professor emerita Judith Klinman has received the 2017 Willard Gibbs Medal Award of the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society.Read more about Klinman wins Gibbs Medal

Richmond Sarpong among 7 Berkeley 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship recipients.Read more about Richmond Sarpong among 2017 recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships

The European Patent Office will grant patent rights over the use of CRISPR in all cell types to a University of California team, contrasting with a...Read more about UC Berkeley Receives CRISPR Patent in Europe

Jamie Cate and Jennifer Doudna develop chemical compound that halts the production of a small set of proteins while leaving general protein production untouched suggests a...Read more about New drug strategy: Target ribosome to halt protein production