BlotSeq single cell sequencing – animated!

still frame from animated video explaining single cell analysis

BioE postdoc Trinh Lam’s animated video explains how Herr Lab’s BlotSeq single-cell tool uses sequencing data to guide protein selection without the need to predefine targets, making the process more flexible.

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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).

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Revealing the Mysteries Within Microbial Genomes

The Boba-seq logo, created by former Arkin Lab undergraduate student researcher Davian Ho. A drawing of a large cup of boba tea, where the boba pearls represent expressed genes

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.

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Scientists Discover Next-Generation System for Programmable Genome Design

MoA animation by Visual Science, 2024

A team of researchers led by Professor Patrick Hsu has discovered the first DNA recombinase that is programmable, allowing the user to specify any desired genomic target sequence and any donor DNA molecule to be inserted. The bridge recombinase mechanism promises to expand genome editing beyond CRISPR and RNA interference (RNAi) to offer a unified mechanism for programmable DNA rearrangements. Bioengineering graduate student Nicholas Perry is also a lead author of the study, along with other researchers from the Arc Institute.

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So to speak: how bats and humans communicate

flying bat Photo by Yuval Barkai @bats.tlv

Berkeley researchers led by Professor Michael Yartsev, working with scientists at Carnegie Mellon University, have identified the part of the brain in Egyptian fruit bats that controls vocalizations and found that it contains similar neural wiring and genetics to the part of the human brain that controls speech.

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