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Bioengineering

Illustration of blood cells

Forever young

05/17/23 — Does the secret to vitality lie within the bloodstream? Scientists at the Conboy lab have identified crucial mechanisms underlying the aging process.
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Speak and spell

05/17/23 — A new brain-computer interface allows users to silently spell out words in real time with near-perfect accuracy.
Photo of an artistic rendering of the brain, created using wire and light.

New Neurotech Collider Lab to harness interdisciplinary synergy for breakthrough innovations

04/17/23 BBH — BBH: The Bakar BioEnginuity Hub and Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology are partnering to create a new interdisciplinary space for world-changing breakthroughs in neurotech
Image of heteropolymers designed to mimic the properties of natural proteins.

Berkeley engineers develop synthetic polymers that mimic the body’s natural proteins

03/20/23 — Alternative polymers work as well as real proteins and are easier to synthesize, a possible game-changer for biomedical applications
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Irina Conboy awarded $3 million grant for research on the biology of aging

02/14/23 — Bioengineering professor will use gift from Open Philanthropy to study tissue-specific changes associated with aging and rejuvenation through blood “dilution” techniques in mice
Aaron Streets

Aaron Streets aims to build a pipeline to diversify STEM faculty

02/08/23 — Berkeley bioengineering professor shares his thoughts on ways the Stanford.Berkeley.UCSF Next Generation Faculty Symposium can help increase the diversity and quality of applicant pools for faculty roles
Forbes 30 Under 30 honorees Jiachen Li and Alison Borklund

Two from Berkeley Engineering named to Forbes 30 Under 30 list

12/09/22 — Magazine cites Ph.D. candidate Jiachen Li for work on an all-season, smart-roof coating, and MEng alumna Alison Burklund of Nanopath for diagnostics that speed treatment of pelvic and gynecologic infections
Close-up image of a mechano-node pore sensing (NPS) device.

The power of simplicity

12/08/22 — Professor Lydia Sohn’s microfluidic device may help solve some of the most complex mysteries in cell biology.
Michael Yartsev in his lab with blue and yellow light simulating bat flight paths.

Yartsev wins Neuroscience Young Investigator Award

11/14/22 — Bioengineering professor Michael Yartsev named 2022 Young Investigator by the Society for Neuroscience in recognition of his work on the neural complexity of free-flying bats
A patient who lost the ability to speak due to severe paralysis uses a brain-computer interface to silently spell out sentences from a vocabulary of more than 1,000 words.

Giving a voice to all

11/08/22 — Advances in brain-computer interfaces may soon make communication easier for those who have lost the ability to speak
Aaron Streets standing at a podium

Aaron Streets named to Popular Science’s Brilliant 10

10/19/22 — CDSS: The list honors trailblazing early-career scientists and engineers who are tackling pressing challenges with innovative solutions
Seven graduate students from Berkeley Engineering have been appointed Siebel Scholars.

Seven honored as Siebel Scholars

09/22/22 — Seven Berkeley engineering students have been named to the Siebel Scholars Foundation’s class of 2023
Lab equipment centrifuging blood

Study finds medical procedure that rejuvenates old human blood

09/15/22 — Berkeley researchers find that plasmapheresis could advance our understanding of human aging, inform treatment of age-related diseases
Glyphic Biotechnologies cofounders Joshua Yang and Daniel Estandian

Bringing biotech to market

08/17/22 — MTM alum advances medical technologies with two startups
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Old blood ages young mice, finds Berkeley-led study

08/08/22 — New Scientist: The findings, published in Nature Metabolism, suggest that cellular aging isn't just a matter of wear and tear
Laura Waller stands in front of Cory Hall

A day in the life of an imaging scientist

08/04/22 — CZ Initiative: Scientist Laura Waller is pushing the frontiers of computational imaging, helping researchers see biology in new ways and in exquisite detail.
Coronavirus

Berkeley-led study identifies human lung proteins that can advance or thwart SARS-CoV-2 infections

07/26/22 — Findings may lead to targeted treatments
Winners of 2022 Bakar Spark Award: Grace Gu, Daniel Klein, Liwei Lin, Angjoo Kanazawa and Phillip Messersmith

Bakar Fellows names Spark Award recipients

06/14/22 — Five engineering faculty among the seven honored for research that produces tangible, positive societal impact through commercialization
3D rendering of COVID-19 virus particles.

Researchers devise a new way to detect and quantify SARS-CoV-2 in pooled samples

06/06/22 — Technique is more sensitive than standard PCR tests in large sample volumes and can be adapted to emerging COVID-19 variants
An Egyptian fruit bat takes flight.

Researchers resolve riddle of mammalian brain’s navigation system

05/12/22 — Study shows bats remember flight paths, enabling precise navigation of familiar routes
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