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Monday, August 9, 2021

UC Berkeley scientists use CRISPR technology to develop rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test

photo of researchers developing new diagnostic testing for COVID-19

After realizing the limitations and inconveniences of current COVID-19 testing, a team containing UC Berkeley scientists aims to apply CRISPR technology to COVID-19 testing, making it more efficient and reliable.

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.
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Campus, News

Monday, June 14, 2021

Forbes recognizes UC Berkeley community members’ contributions to health, science

Forbes 50 Over 50 list featured two members of the UC Berkeley community to recognize the impact of their work.
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Campus

Monday, May 31, 2021

‘Own a part of history’: UC Berkeley to sell nonfungible tokens of scientific discoveries

UC Berkeley will auction two nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, relating to Nobel Prize-winning inventions for the funding of future research and innovation.
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Research & Ideas

Thursday, April 1, 2021

FDA approves CRISPR gene therapy trials for sickle cell disease

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.
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International Women's Day 2021

Monday, March 8, 2021

Editor’s Note: International Women’s Day 2021

It’s been a tough year, to say the least, yet women and gender-nonconforming folks have continued to persevere, fight back and overcome the odds stacked against them.
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Research & Ideas

Monday, November 9, 2020

Nobel Prize-winning technology helps UC Berkeley, UCSF researchers develop faster COVID-19 test

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.
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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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Campus

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

UC Berkeley professors talk reopening, ‘reimagining’ post-pandemic life

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.
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Research & Ideas

Friday, October 9, 2020

UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna receives Nobel Prize in chemistry

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.
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Research & Ideas

Sunday, May 3, 2020

UC Berkeley, UCSF researchers use robotics to expedite COVID-19 testing

In an effort to speed up COVID-19 testing, researchers at UC Berkeley and UCSF are using robotics to test hundreds of samples every day.
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UC Berkeley scientists use CRISPR technology to develop rapid COVID-19 diagnostic test

Forbes recognizes UC Berkeley community members’ contributions to health, science

‘Own a part of history’: UC Berkeley to sell nonfungible tokens of scientific discoveries

FDA approves CRISPR gene therapy trials for sickle cell disease

Editor’s Note: International Women’s Day 2021

Nobel Prize-winning technology helps UC Berkeley, UCSF researchers develop faster COVID-19 test

UC Berkeley institute to end COVID-19 saliva test trial

UC Berkeley professors talk reopening, ‘reimagining’ post-pandemic life

UC Berkeley professor Jennifer Doudna receives Nobel Prize in chemistry

UC Berkeley, UCSF researchers use robotics to expedite COVID-19 testing