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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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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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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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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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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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The Innovative Genomics Institute, or IGI, and UC Berkeley have founded a lab to process diagnostic tests in response to the COVID-19, or the new coronavirus, pandemic.
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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.
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UC Berkeley professor of molecular and cell biology and of chemistry Jennifer Doudna has been awarded the 2020 Wolf Prize in Medicine for her discovery of CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing tool.
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office issued the UC system’s 20th CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology patent with the arrival of the new year, according to a press release by Berkeley News.
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The UC system was awarded a patent Tuesday, marking the university’s 16th patent for the CRISPR-Cas9 patent portfolio — the highest number in the country.
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