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Water is dropped on the advancing Palisades Fire by helicopter in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles.

UC Berkeley researchers offer insights into the Los Angeles fires

01/13/25 — Scholars discuss the fires’ causes and impacts on health, housing and the path ahead
Professor Joshua Apte measures air quality aboard a diesel train bound for San Jose from San Francisco. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)

Unequal burden

12/02/24 — Joshua Apte studies how air pollutants impact different communities — and what kind of policies might improve equity in public health
Professor Rebecca Abergel peers through a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner at Berkeley Lab

In sickness and in health

11/25/24 — Rebecca Abergel explores the promise of nuclear medicine
Illustration of a person with the earbuds that can help them stay awake. Illustration by Adobe Stock and Adam Lau

Staying alert

11/20/24 — Engineers have designed earbuds that can detect signs of drowsiness in the brain.
illustration of a fetus

New glues

11/20/24 — A new chemical strategy opens the door to high-performance, recyclable adhesives, including a superglue for fetal surgery.
Professor Joshua Apte measures air quality aboard a diesel train bound for San Jose from San Francisco. (Photo by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)

Unequal burden

11/20/24 — Professor Joshua Apte studies how air pollutants impact people in different communities — and what kind of policies might improve equity in the realm of public health.
Professor Rebecca Abergel peers through a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner at Berkeley Lab

In sickness and in health

11/20/24 — Professor Rebecca Abergel harnesses the power of radioactive metals to develop treatments for cancer and heavy metal contamination.
Widespread of transfected cells in the brain by in utero delivery Cre mRNA.

Could a new medical approach fix faulty genes before birth?

10/24/24 — UC Davis Health: Berkeley engineers collaborate on unique mRNA delivery method for in utero gene editing for neurodevelopmental conditions
Photo splice with electrical engineering and computer sciences associate professor Rikky Muller on the left and bioengineering professor Adam Arkin on the right (Photos by Adam Lau/Berkeley Engineering)

Berkeley researchers receive ARPA-H awards

10/10/24 — UC Berkeley researchers in two multi-institutional teams have won major awards to fund pioneering biomedical research
EECS assistant professor Preeya Khanna.

EECS professor Preeya Khanna wins NIH New Innovator Award

10/08/24 — CDSS: Prestigious award supports especially creative, high-impact biomedical and behavioral research by early-career investigators
Traffic moves along 99 south in Fresno, Calif.

California has dramatically improved its air quality, but racial disparities persist

09/11/24 — Study reveals low-income communities of color still breathe the dirtiest air
Illustration of alpha-lipoic acid molecular structure.

New recyclable adhesives can be easily adapted for medical, consumer and industrial applications

08/22/24 — Uses include surgical superglue that could be game-changer for fetal surgeries
Lung cancer metastasis.

Powerful new mini microscope will enable precision cancer surgery

08/22/24 — UCSF: Researchers win up to $15 million from ARPA-H to develop next-gen miniature scanner to detect individual cancer cells during surgery
Woman driving car while drowsy.

Dozing at the wheel? Not with these fatigue-detecting earbuds

08/05/24 — Berkeley researchers have created earpieces that identify brain activity associated with relaxation and drowsiness
Crystals of a pure actinium compound, as seen through a microscope.

Novel approach to studying actinium sheds light on radioactive element’s behavior

07/15/24 — Berkeley Lab: Research could help improve a promising cancer treatment known as targeted alpha therapy
Bridge recombinase mechanism.

Scientists discover next-generation system for programmable genome design

06/26/24 — Arc Institute: Bridge recombinase mechanism provides a precise and powerful tool to recombine, rearrange DNA in a programmable way
A collage of photos shows scientists working in different types of lab environments.

Berkeley’s ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship combats climate change

05/30/24 — UC Berkeley faculty are fast-tracking the development of new and creative climate solutions
Traditionally, fluorescence microscopes (blue images) are used to image tumors. A new image sensor (purple images) could do the same, less invasively.

Tiny sensor aims to monitor tumors in real time

04/19/24 — IEEE Spectrum: Novel device could potentially provide a better alternative to biopsies
UC Berkeley professors Hillel Adesnik, Laura Waller, and Rikky Muller, and UC Berkeley graduate student Liz Murray pose in Waller’s lab with a prototype of their neurotechnology for two-way communication with the brain.

Mind-blowing science: ‘Star Wars-style’ holograms to communicate with the brain

03/19/24 — CZ Biohub: UC Berkeley scientists are taking brain-machine interfaces to a new level with support from Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco
Vayu Hill-Maini is working to unlock the richly diverse genomes of fungi to engineer them into meat alternatives. Here, he holds petri dishes of growing fungi; the one on the left is the original mold, the right has been engineered using the team

It’s hearty, it’s meaty, it’s mold

03/14/24 — Berkeley Lab: Bioengineers are hacking the genome of fungi for smart foods of the future
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