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Yartsev wins Richard Lounsbery Award

Michael Yartsev will receive the 2025 Richard Lounsbery Award from the National Academy of Sciences to recognize his extraordinary scientific achievement in understanding the neural basis of natural behaviors.

Bridge RNAs: ‘Holy Grail’ in Next-Gen Gene Editing Tech?

Patrick Hsu’s breakthrough discovery of bridge RNA gene editing tools is discussed on WebMD, with contributions from BioE alumnus Connor Tou.

Diverse paths to discovery at UC Berkeley

Photo of gloved hands with sample containers and receptacle during RNA sample extraction in the centrifuge. Image taken in the Healy lab and courtesy of Jazmin Isabel Velazquez.

BioE graduate student Jazmin Isabel Velazquez examines the unique paths every graduate student takes on the road to their PhD in this story based on her experience in the Healy and Rubinsky Labs.

Herr Lab Postdoc Wins AIP Best Paper

Photo of Lam receiving best paper certificate on stage at conference

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).

Arkin Lab receives ARPA-H award for microbiome engineering

head and shoulders photo of Adam Arkin standing in hallway

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.

Could a new medical approach fix faulty genes before birth?

brain section image showing wide distribution of edited cells in the cortex

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

Drawing of the LNPs encapsulating iGeoCas9 RNP

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

Healy Lab startup receives LSEC Venture Grant

MuscleMatrix and their hydrogel scaffold for muscle loss injuries is part of LSEC’s 2nd cohort of Venture Grant startups.

Times Higher Ed ranks UC Berkeley No.1 public university in U.S.

Times Higher Education again ranks UC Berkeley the number one public university in the U.S.

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