Posts Tagged ‘research’
Overton wins best poster at MicroTAS
BioE PhD student Maya Overton won the CHEMINAS Young Researcher Poster Award at this year’s MicroTAS (Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences – Micro-Total Analysis Systems ) 2026 conference in Granada, Spain. Her winning poster from Amy Herr’s lab described “Single-cell Mass Spectrometry Proteomics Paired With Imaging-Based Morphology.”
Read MoreUncovering the hidden chemical activity of microplastics
Recent research by Teresa Head-Gordon and collaborators has shown that when bulk polymers become microplastics they are in fact not inert, but rather, the tiny pieces of plastic chemically modify the water around them to generate highly reactive species that may cause damage to living systems.
Read MoreDigital Bat Twins – NeuroAI generates testable hypotheses about higher-level cognitive function
Researchers in Michael Yartsev’s lab, led by postdocs Adam Lowet and Krishna Kasuba, built a digital twin of the bat hippocampus – an AI model trained on large-scale neural activity during natural flight. The model generated new, testable hypotheses about hippocampal organization that were confirmed by real-world data.
Read MoreNATIVE-ID Seeks to Prevent Neurodegenerative Diseases by Learning the Language of Disordered Proteins
ARPA-H’s BIOGAMI program aims to transform our understanding of protein dysfunction in the earliest stages of neurodegenerative disease by developing new approaches to detect and characterize protein misfolding. BioE PhD alumnus Nicolas Fawzi leads the Brown University team on this multicampus effort, led at Berkeley by the Innovative Genomics Institute.
Read MoreFrom bat flight to the most complex human movements
Examining large-scale neural activity from the motor cortex of freely flying Egyptian fruit bats helps Michael Yartsev’s lab understand how the brain supports very complex behaviors, like buttoning a shirt or playing piano.
Read MoreSolving a longstanding problem in drug delivery
Lipid nanoparticles are great delivery vehicles for mRNA treatments, but their positive charge triggers high levels of inflammation. Now researchers led by Professor Niren Murthy have engineered a new lipid nanoparticle that can switch its charge from positive to negative and may avoid triggering inflammation while still able to deliver mRNA and other nucleic acids.
Read MoreHow One Simple Change Can Make Lipid Nanoparticles Safer for Gene Editing and Other Applications
In a new paper out in Nature Nanotechnology, researchers in Niren Murthy’s lab show that there is a simple way to remove the toxicity of lipid nanoparticles while maintaining their ability to effectively deliver therapies to specific cells in the body.
Read MoreHerr Lab and partners receive grant to study biology in time and space
Our researchers have received a new grant from the Biohub non-profit research organization, looking to advance the field of Spatiotemporal omics – the ability to sample biomolecules at different locations and times to watch disease processes unfold. Amy Herr and her UCSF partners Jennifer Rosenbluth and Amrita Basu will be studying integrated organoid systems for immunotherapy toxicity.
Read MoreGrowing immune cells with more targeted cancer-fighting abilities
Recent research from Professor Derfogail Delcassian’s lab explores how the stiffness of swollen lymph nodes increases the strength, but decreases the precision, of cancer-killing immune cells.
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