December 22, 2011 – Synthetic biology researchers at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory have developed computer assisted design (CAD)-type models and simulations for RNA molecules that make it possible to engineer biological components.
Archives for 2011
Arkin, Lee and Pruitt 2012 AIMBE Fellows
December 20, 2011 – Congratulations to Professors Adam Arkin, Luke Lee and Lisa Pruitt, all new members of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows!
Two BioEs in 30 under 30!
December 19, 2011 – Congratulations to Bioengineering Ph.D. student Mozziyar Etemadi and undergraduate alumnus Albert Mach, both named in this year’s Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 list.
Luke Lee awarded Gates Foundation grant
December 16, 2011- Berkeley Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee has been selected to receive a Point-of-Care Diagnostics grant through Grand Challenges in Global Health, an initiative created by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Researchers engineer E.Coli to eat switchgrass and make fuel
November 29, 2011 – Research by Bioengineering and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Professor Jay Keasling is taking synthetic biology another step closer to full-scale production of biofuels.
Berkeley iGEM video featured at SciAm
November 27, 2011 – A molecular animation by the Berkeley iGEM team was featured at Scientific American. Check it out!
New Master’s in Forefront
November 20, 2011 – Bioengineering’s new Master’s Degree focusing in translational medicine was featured in the latest Forefront Magazine. Read it online!
Lee turns viruses into molecular legos
November 12, 2011 – Berkeley Bioengineering Associate Professor Seung-Wuk Lee has turned a benign virus into an engineering tool for assembling structures that mimic collagen, one of the most important structural proteins in nature. The process developed in his lab could eventually be used to manufacture materials with tunable optical, biomedical and mechanical properties.
Anderson in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News
Synthetic Biology Delivers Cool Tools but New Therapeutics Are a Ways Off October 17, 2011 – What does it take to transform a microbe normally found in the intestinal tract into a cancer-killing machine? These and other questions about the applicability of synthetic biology abound…. SBI’s J. Christopher Anderson, assistant professor of bioengineering at Berkeley, is […]