September 19, 2011 Bioengineering Assistant Professor Amy Herr, along with graduate student Kelly Karns, has developed a microfluidic assay which can test tears for proteins that signal disease.
research
CellScope hits the big time
June 21, 2011 The CellScope, a portable cellphone-based microphone from Berkeley BioE Professor Dan Fletcher’s class and laboratory, has been making more big news lately. Most recently the CellScope has been featured in the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle.
Li Lab awarded CIRM grant
May 4, 2011 UC Berkeley Bioengineering Associate Professor Song Li was one of nineteen University of California scientists receiving grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine for stem cell research.
Synthetic Biology Institute launches
April 25, 2011 An alliance of top researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has formed the UC Berkeley Synthetic Biology Institute (SBI), advancing efforts to engineer cells and biological systems in ways that promise to transform technology in health and medicine, energy, the environment, new materials, and a host of other critical arenas.
BioE gets NIH grant for capstone design
March 30, 2011 The Department of Bioengineering has been awarded a 5-year grant by the National Institutes of Health to support our senior Bioengineering design course.
Arkin and Schaffer look at Cellular Networking
March 18, 2011 Bioengineering Professors Adam Arkin and David Schaffer are the authors of an essay in the journal Cellwhich describes in detail key technologies and insights that are advancing systems biology research.
Lee Lab achieves lab on a chip milestone
March 17, 2011 UC Berkeley Bioengineering Professor Luke Lee and his laboratory have made a major advancement in microfluidics research, which could lead to stand-alone, self-powered chips that can diagnose diseases within minutes.
Alumnus Di Carlo engineers restraint
November 2010 Bioengineering Phd and BS alumnus Dino Di Carlo, now Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at UCLA, was profiled in the November 2010 edition of Innovations, from Berkeley Engineering.
Berkeley Science Review features synthetic biology
November 2010 The growing field of synthetic biology is featured in the Fall 2010 issue of the Berkeley Science Review.