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UC Berkeley biochemist Jennifer Doudna, molecular biologist Robert Tijan and a team of researchers have expanded the role of the newly discovered CRISPR protein C2c2 that targets RNA instead of DNA.

Alum Jeremy Baskin finds new home as Cornell professor. (Photo courtesy Shaogeng Tang)

Nobel Laureate Roger Tsien, former Berkeley professor, has died.

Terry Rosen—alum, donor, commencement speaker and serial biotech entrepreneur—has launched another successful start up.

Michelle Chang has been awarded the Pfizer Award in Enzyme Chemistry. Jennifer Doudna has received The Biopolymers Murray Goodman Memorial Prize.

Chemistry professor Stephen Leone has won the 2017 American Chemical Society's Ahmed Zewail Award in Ultrafast Science and Technology.

Metal-organic frameworks provide a new platform for solving the structure of hard-to-study samples.

For a simple compound that is central to almost every aspect of our existence, water remains fiendishly difficult to understand.

Chemistry professor Graham Fleming has been named an Honorable Foreign Member of the Chemical Society of Japan.

Fire-fighting foam containing highly fluorinated chemicals is contaminating drinking water supplies around many of the nation’s military bases, airports and industrial sites, according to a new study by UC Berkeley and Harvard University researchers.

To appreciate the magnitude of the advance that Zewail introduced to chemistry, one has to ponder the minuteness of the time intervals that he could routinely employ with his special lasers: a femtosecond is a millionth of a billionth of a second. It is one second divided by ten to the power of fifteen.

Ahmed H. Zewail, recipient of the 1999 Chemistry Nobel Prize, has died. He was 70.

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Rich Mathies proposed lab-on-a-chip Enceladus Organic Analyzer can sniff out one organic molecule in a billion others.

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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced a major award to establish the the Molecular Sciences Software Institute. Teresa Head-Gordon, Chancellor's Professor of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, is the lead scientist at UC Berkeley.

Tanja Cuk, in collaboration with colleagues at LBNL’s Molecular Foundry, is revealing the previously hidden initial catalytic steps of solar-to-fuel conversion on material surfaces.

Jamie Cate and fellow UC Berkeley researchers have now found a promising new drug target within that pathway that is appealing, in part, because it appears to control production of only a few percent of the body’s many proteins, those critical to regulating the growth and proliferation of cells.

Markita Landry and Ke Xu, two College of Chemistry assistant professors, have won prestigious awards from the Young Investigator Program of the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation.

Prof. Stephen Leone will receive an honorary degree from the University of Warwick, UK on July 18, 2016.

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