Eric Rogers

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Campus researchers sequence coronavirus genome, find several strains

The Innovative Genomics Institute is a campus organization run by senior genomics scientist Stacia Wyman and bioengineering assistant professor Liana Lareau. The institution was promptly established in March 2020 toward the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Amid a surge in COVID-19 cases and the detection of new variants of the virus on campus, the Innovative Genomics Institute, or IGI, at UC Berkeley aims to sequence viral genomes to improve student safety.
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Research & Ideas

Sunday, January 24, 2021

Campus researchers find disinformation on medication abortion webpages

UC Berkeley School of Public Health researchers found that four out of the five top “abortion pill” query results on Google were less than 50% accurate.
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Research & Ideas

Sunday, January 17, 2021

UC Berkeley researchers find fences in Wyoming impact deer migration

UC Berkeley doctoral candidate Wenjing Xu published an article in the British Ecological Society Jan. 6, which analyzed how fences impacted mule and pronghorn deer migratory patterns in Wyoming.
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Campus

Friday, December 18, 2020

Postgraduates provide handmade hand sanitizer, masks to local unhoused

Common Humanity Collective, a grassroots, anarchocommunist mutual aid organization that produces and distributes personal protective equipment, or PPE, such as handmade hand sanitizer and face masks, is prepared for a surge of COVID-19 cases in coming months.
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City

Thursday, December 10, 2020

COVID-19 cases at Golden Gate Fields exceeds 300 people in past month

The Berkeley Public Health Division identified another 100 COVID-19 cases associated with Golden Gate Fields, a horse racetrack on the city’s San Francisco Bay waterfront, upon a second round of comprehensive testing.
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Research & Ideas

Tuesday, December 1, 2020

Bay Area researchers find Alzheimer’s disease diagnostic technique

Researchers looked at 274 unique brain scans to develop a new method to diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease, the leading cause of dementia, in live patients.
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Research & Ideas

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Research team led by UC Berkeley professor receives $1.7M grant for mosquito migration study

The National Institutes of Health, or NIH, granted researchers from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health $1.7 million to study mosquito migration patterns using genomics.
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California General Elections 2020

Monday, November 2, 2020

The 2016 election still haunts us: A retrospective

While COVID-19 has changed life as we know it, and while four years ago seems like a completely different world, many of the anxieties surrounding the 2020 election are haunted by the spectre of the 2016 election. President Donald Trump clinched an unexpected victory in the election four years ago,
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Research & Ideas

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

UC Berkeley institute to end COVID-19 saliva test trial

UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute, or IGI’s, Free Asymptomatic Saliva Test, or FAST, study for COVID-19 will end Thursday after having tested more than 4,800 people, according Jennifer Doudna, president and chair of the IGI governance board
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30 Years of ADA 2020, Student Life

Wednesday, October 21, 2020

UC Berkeley COVID-19 testing facilities pose challenges for some students with disabilities

While many students get tested regularly at UC Berkeley’s University Health Services, or UHS, coronavirus testing facilities, some students with disabilities find it challenging to access these services.
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Eric Rogers

Campus researchers sequence coronavirus genome, find several strains

Campus researchers find disinformation on medication abortion webpages

UC Berkeley researchers find fences in Wyoming impact deer migration

Postgraduates provide handmade hand sanitizer, masks to local unhoused

COVID-19 cases at Golden Gate Fields exceeds 300 people in past month

Bay Area researchers find Alzheimer’s disease diagnostic technique

Research team led by UC Berkeley professor receives $1.7M grant for mosquito migration study

The 2016 election still haunts us: A retrospective

UC Berkeley institute to end COVID-19 saliva test trial

UC Berkeley COVID-19 testing facilities pose challenges for some students with disabilities