Saul Perlmutter awarded 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
Saul Perlmutter, UC Berkeley professor of physics and LBNL senior scientist, will share the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics with two other scientists, including former UC Berkeley postdoc Adam Riess, for...
View ArticleSynthetic biology revolution
UC Berkeley established the Synthetic Biology Institute with the goal of creating transformative processes, products and technologies that meet critical demands in energy, health, agriculture,...
View ArticleMissing link
Heralded as the “Breakthrough discovery of 2009″ by the journal Science, Ardipithecus ramidus, a completely new human ancestor, was unearthed in Ethiopia by a UC Berkeley co-led research team. At 4.4...
View ArticleBiotech building blocks
Using seed money from the National Science Foundation, bioengineers from UC Berkeley and Stanford launched the world’s first open-source biological design-build facility to help speed the development...
View ArticleJump-starting the bioeconomy
Harnessing innovation across the fields of bioengineering and biotechnology, structural and chemical biology, and bioinformatics, the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) is...
View ArticleBridging the R&D gap
The vision of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society is to develop information technology solutions for the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems....
View ArticleTackling the global energy challenge
The Energy Biosciences Institute at UC Berkeley is leading the world’s quest to transition from today’s carbon-based energy economy.
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