BioE News
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.
Read MoreFaculty Focus on Leah Guthrie
Professor Leah Guthrie works to understand how the microbiome metabolites and proteins communicate with our human cells to influence our physiology and pathophysiology. Learn more about Guthrie in this interview with QB3.
Read MoreDelcassian receives seed funding for cancer research
Professor Derfogail Delcassian has been awarded $1 million in non-dilutive seed funding to accelerate the commercialization of her work on targeted molecular therapies for hard-to-treat cancers.
Read MoreUndergraduate program ranks 6th in the US!
The Berkeley Bioengineering undergraduate program has moved up to rank 6th in the nation in the latest rankings released by US News & World Report.
Read MoreAcid-degradable lipid nanoparticles enhance the delivery of mRNA
Research by Niren Murthy’s lab presents a new acid-degradable linker that rapidly hydrolyzes in endosomes but is stable in the blood, which could significantly increase the efficiency of delivering mRNA-based therapies to cells.
Read MoreNew recyclable adhesives can be easily adapted for medical, consumer and industrial applications
Messersmith Lab has created a family of polymers from a stabilized alpha-lipoic acid which could lead to versatile, high-performance and environmentally friendly recyclable adhesives.
Read MoreRevealing the Mysteries Within Microbial Genomes
Adam Arkin’s lab has developed a new technique, barcoded overexpression bacterial shotgun library sequencing (Boba-seq), that will make it much easier for researchers to discover the traits or activities encoded by genes of unknown function in microbes.
Read MoreYartsev new HHMI Investigator
Congratulations Professor Michael Yartsev, named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator!
Read MoreDi Carlo new Chair of UCLA Bioengineering
BS and PhD alumnus Dino Di Carlo has been named Chair of the Department of Bioengineering at UCLA.
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