A group of scientists from across the world, including Kevan Shokat (Ph.D. ’91, Chem) , UC Berkeley Professor […]
Category Archive: Research
When Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ke Xu finished his Ph.D. on superconductors, he decided to work in a […]
New research from the lab of Nitash Balsara, the Charles W. Tobias Professor in Electrochemistry, reports that with […]
In a mere seven years, Cas9 has shown itself to be a formidable gene editor, employed in humans, […]
Jennifer Doudna, professor of biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology and chemistry, has received the 2018 National Academy of Sciences […]
Smart windows, that are transparent when it’s dark or cool but automatically darken when the sun is too […]
In a breakthrough that could lead to a new class of materials with functions found only in living […]
David Graves still remembers the first time he saw the Bay Area. “I had just graduated with a […]
The world is running out of clean water. By the end of the century more than 11 billion […]
Chemistry’s Ken Raymond has just received a three-year, $450,000 grant from the Department of Energy to continue his […]
Several big events colored the year 1969. Richard Nixon enjoyed his first year in office. An unusually large […]
Ke Xu comfortably navigates between different worlds—geographic, cultural and scientific. He was born in 1982 in the city […]
Chemistry professors Jennifer Doudna and Jamie Cate, molecular biologist Robert Tjian and Doudna Lab researchers have expanded the […]
Chemistry professor Omar Yaghi and colleagues have created a new sort of nanoscale display case that enables new […]
CBE professor Doug Clark, along with colleagues, is learning to control self-assembly of proteins. This ability is being […]
A new study from the research group of Chris Chang is further burnishing copper’s reputation as an essential […]
Bionic enzymes got a needed boost in speed thanks to new research by the Hartwig lab. By pairing […]
Eric Neuscamman, one of chemistry’s newest assistant professors, succinctly summarizes his research with a simple question, “How do […]
In September 2015, chemistry professor Peidong Yang was notified that he had won a prestigious MacArthur Fellows Program […]