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By Michael Barnes In the early 1980s, the lab of College biomolecular engineer Harvey Blanch brought together an […]
By Marge d’Wylde The Berkeley Catalyst Fund (BCF) is in its second year as an investment resource for […]
When Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ke Xu finished his Ph.D. on superconductors, he decided to work in a […]
New research from the lab of Nitash Balsara, the Charles W. Tobias Professor in Electrochemistry, reports that with […]
In a mere seven years, Cas9 has shown itself to be a formidable gene editor, employed in humans, […]
In 1869, Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev wrote out the known elements (there were 63 at the time) on […]
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has named David W. Oxtoby (Ph.D. ’75, Chem) the organization’s new […]
John E. Adams, (Ph.D. ’79, Chem) has been re-elected chair of the board of directors of the American […]
Smart windows, that are transparent when it’s dark or cool but automatically darken when the sun is too […]
Hoppy beer is all the rage among craft brewers and beer lovers, and now a group of UC […]
In a breakthrough that could lead to a new class of materials with functions found only in living […]
“In Ghana,” says Kwabena Bediako, one of the College of Chemistry’s new assistant professors, “everyone knows I was […]
Undergraduate students are rarely the first authors on articles in leading scientific journals. But that’s what happened in […]
David Graves still remembers the first time he saw the Bay Area. “I had just graduated with a […]
The world is running out of clean water. By the end of the century more than 11 billion […]
Berkeley chemistry professors Chris Chang and Dean Toste have developed a new method of protein ligation, the joining […]
On a sunny day, energetic UVB photons hit a certain type of organic molecule, 7-dehydrocholesterol, in your skin. […]
Paul Alivisatos is a Berkeley chemistry alumnus and professor, the current Vice Chancellor for Research, a former director […]