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Cryo-Em Resolution
“The experience in electron microscopy, the strong background in biological and materials science research, the high-performance computing resources, the track record of developing innovative technology, are all here under one roof.”
Revolving Door
Failing a drug test, associating with felons and other technical parole violations are among the key drivers of prison’s “revolving door,” according to new UC Berkeley research.
CRISPR-Gold
Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have demonstrated in mice that CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology can repair the mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a severe muscle-wasting disease.
Puerto Rico Soldier Helping
When Hurricane Harvey struck the Texas coast in late August, Americans had a choice: they could share their resources or look the other way.
Irfan Siddiqi, Bert de Jong and Jonathan Carter
For the past few years, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have been exploring a drastically different kind of computing architecture based on quantum mechanics to solve some of science’s hardest problems.
amino acid movement upon DNA binding
Further steps made toward a hyper-accurate gene editor.
James Baldwin and Mary Ann Pollar
The Rainbow Sign was a vibrant black cultural arts center that drew cultural icons from across the country, from Maya Angelou and James Baldwin to Huey Newton and Nina Simone.
headshot of David Patterson
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new electrocatalyst that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon fuels and alcohols using record-low inputs of energy.
Black Lives Matter rally in Fort Lauderdale in July 2016. (iStock photo.)
The Berkeley IGS Poll has turned to California voters for their takes on race relations in the state and nation, the rights of white nationalists to hold public rallies and whether the president can manage the United States’ racial tensions.
Eastern Fox Squirrels
Like trick-or-treaters sorting their Halloween candy haul, fox squirrels apparently organize their stashes of nuts by variety, quality and possibly even preference.
Berkeley City Manager Dee Williams-Ridley on the left and Berkeley Chamber of Commerce CEO Kirsten MacDonald on the right pose with UC Berkeley’s three honorees: Mike Cohen, Amy Herr and Scott Shenker. (San Francisco Business Times photo by Todd Johnson)
Amy Herr, Scott Shenker, and Mike Cohen are powerhouses at UC Berkeley, and all three are winners of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce’s Visionary of the Year award.
tabla
A student-designed medical device to diagnose pneumonia has been named the winner of the student category of Fast Company‘s 2017 Innovation by Design Awards.
The porous MOF structure contains hexagonal channels lined with a high concentration of iron sites. These iron sites are able to bind carbon monoxide strongly and in a cooperative fashion. Gray, blue, green, and orange spheres represent carbon, nitrogen, chlorine and iron, respectively.
A newly created metal-organic framework material that absorbs carbon monoxide better than other materials has a growing list of applications.
refinery
A report from the Center for Environmental Public Policy provides new policy recommendations to implement program to eliminate hotspots of severe air pollution harming the health of people in disadvantaged communities.
Interactive emotions map
New study challenges a long-held assumption in psychology that most human emotions fall within the universal categories of happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust.
A mating swarm of the marine choanoflagellate S. rosetta
Choanoflagellates seem to take cues from bacteria when choosing their life trajectory