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2024 Rising Star Lecture


“Decoding, Modeling, and Reprogramming Cells at Scale in the Era of Digital Biology“

Dr. Jian Shu, Harvard-MIT

Wednesday, Nov. 20
4:00 – 5:00 PM
105 Stanley Hall, UC Berkeley


Bioengineering Seminar Series

Dr. Jian Shu Assistant Professor Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology, MIT Associate Member Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard [...]

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Recent news from Berkeley Bioengineering

Could a new medical approach fix faulty genes before birth?

Could a new medical approach fix faulty genes before birth?

Murthy lab and UC Davis have developed a unique mRNA delivery method for in-utero gene editing for neurodevelopmental conditions.

Thermostable Cas9 Enhances RNP Performance in Lung and Liver

Niren Murthy and collaborators have developed a more stable version of the Cas9 enzyme to improve delivery of CRISPR-Cas9 ribonucleoproteins (RNPs) for in vivo gene editing.

Arkin Lab receives ARPA-H award for microbiome engineering

Arkin Lab receives ARPA-H award for microbiome engineering

Professor Adam Arkin has been granted an award of over $20 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to pursue microbiome engineering to create probiotic bacterial communities that prevent and treat lung pathogens.

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