CRISPR

Scientists from UC Berkeley are part of a research team using Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR technology to develop a COVID-19 diagnostic test that is fast, convenient and can be performed on site.

CRISPR genome editing technology, which was developed at UC Berkeley, has been approved for clinical trials to correct gene mutations responsible for sickle cell disease.

While humans continue to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, campus scientists have discovered a way for plants to fight off agricultural pandemics, according to a recently published study.

Researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or Berkeley Lab, have found a more efficient technique to modify metabolic processes in microbes that has the potential to speed up biomanufacturing.

Researchers from UC Berkeley and Gladstone Institutes have developed a technology that could detect the coronavirus in five minutes based on Nobel Prize-winning CRISPR technology.

In the wake of the news that UC Berkeley’s spring 2021 semester will consist of mostly remote instruction, Berkeley Conversations hosted a panel of professors Monday to address the factors affecting the campus's reopening.

Jennifer Doudna, UC Berkeley professor of chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology, was awarded half of the Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for developing the gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9.

On Friday, UC Berkeley researchers discussed the scientific origin of coronaviruses in bats during an installment of the ongoing "Berkeley Conversations: COVID-19" series.

During a YouTube livestream, Chancellor Carol Christ and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Paul Alivisatos discussed the ways UC Berkeley has been impacted by the coronavirus pandemic and how campus has responded to it.

For decades, women at UC Berkeley, acknowledged or unacknowledged, have pioneered their way through majors, studies and titles. Here are some of our favorite women throughout history who’ve fought against social norms to open doors for the rest of us at UC Berkeley.