A new study from UC Berkeley illustrates the ease with which CRISPR-Cas9 can knock out genes in exotic animals — in this case, an amphipod or sandhopper — to learn how those genes control growth and development.
December 10, 2015
UC Berkeley News
LBNL News
How Berkeley Lab battery spinoff Seeo got acquired by a major multinational company.
December 1, 2015
UC Berkeley News
Jennifer Doudna on the ethical and societal issues of editing heritable genes.
November 20, 2015
Berkeley Science Review
Research shows that the price of your no-fuss non-stick pan may be higher than you thought.
LBNL News
Xu and fellow Berkeley Lab researchers develop nanoparticles that can carry therapeutics across the brain blood barrier. Photo by Roy Kaltschmidt
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November 18, 2015
The Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering welcomes their newest professor, Kranthi Mandadapu.
November 12, 2015
UC Berkeley News
Two new studies from UC Berkeley should give scientists who use CRISPR-Cas9 for genome engineering greater confidence that they won't inadvertently edit the wrong DNA.
November 10, 2015
LBNL News
Yaghi study challenges prevailing view on how metal organic frameworks store gases
November 9, 2015
NY Times
A new gene-editing tool might create an ethical morass — or it might make revising nature seem natural.
November 2, 2015
Chemistry professor Evan Miller has won a Young Chemical Biologist Award 2015 from the International Chemical Biology Society (ICBS).
As one of four awardees, Miller gave a podium presentation during the special Rising Stars session at the 2015 joint meeting of ICBS and the European Chemical Biology Society (ECBS) in Berlin, Oct. 7–9. Miller's lecture was titled "Electrophysiology, Unplugged: New Small Molecule Fluorophores for Optical Interrogation of Neuronal Voltage."
October 28, 2015
vwvortex.com
A jury of representatives from BASF, Volkswagen and from academia selected Dr. McCloskey for his outstanding research results in the area of lithium-oxygen batteries.
LBNL News
Berkeley Lab researchers co-author science article proposing Unified Microbiome Initiative.
October 27, 2015
LBNL News
Jeff Long and Berkeley Lab researchers find a better way to store natural gas as a transportation fuel
October 26, 2015
UC Berkeley News
A new and innovative way to store methane could speed the development of natural gas-powered cars that don't require the high pressures or cold temperatures of today's compressed or liquefied natural gas vehicles.
Chemistry professor Thomas Maimone has been awarded a prestigious Research Scholar Grant from The American Cancer Society.
October 22, 2015
LBNL News
Jennifer Doudna and fellow researchers discover how CRISPR/Cas steals foreign DNA for the bacterial immune system.
UC Berkeley News
Professor emeritus of chemistry and former director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Charles (Chuck) Shank is one of two scientists to receive the Enrico Fermi Award, one of the federal government's oldest and most prestigious awards for scientific achievement.
October 19, 2015
Leslie Silvers is the latest recipient of the Chemistry Achievement Prize (CAP). The prize is awarded quarterly to a College of Chemistry staff member for outstanding work, collaborative efforts and exemplary service to the college.
October 16, 2015
UC Berkeley News
Sarah Richardson of the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) is one of the five recipients of the 2015 For Women in Science Fellowship.