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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


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Herr Lab Postdoc Wins AIP Best Paper

Herr Lab Postdoc Wins AIP Best Paper

Trinh Lam, a postdoc in Amy Herr’s lab, has won the Biomicrofluidics Best Paper Award from AIP Publishing at the 28th International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences – Micro-Total Analysis Systems (µTAS 2024).

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.

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