Abby Dernburg Wins Presidential Early Career Award
Professer in Residence Abby Dernburg was one of 57 scientists nationwide selected to receive a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. The award was presented in Washington by the...
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Nicole King Chosen as 2004 Pew Scholar
Assistant Professor Nicole King has been chosen as a 2004 Pew Biomedical Scholar. The prestigious award funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by UCSF provides $240,000 over four years...
View ArticleHunting the Achilles' Heel of Hepatitis
One way to disrupt a mechanical process is to throw a wrench into the works. This also holds true for viruses, biological parasites that hijack a cell's reproductive mechanisms to replicate themselves....
View ArticleThe Cellular Mechanic
Carlos Bustamante is a mechanic. He tinkers with machines to see what makes them tick. He talks a lot about torque and force, compression and tension. Bustamante is not an engineer though. He's a UC...
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Hiroshi Nikaido Receives Bristol-Myers Squibb Award
University of California, Berkeley, biochemist Hiroshi Nikaido, M.D., has received the 14th annual Bristol-Myers Squibb "Freedom to Discover" Award for Distinguished Achievement in Infectious Diseases...
View ArticleWhen is a mouse like a test tube?
A University of California, Berkeley, chemist has put a new twist on the standard chemistry experiment: Instead of using a test tube or flask, she mixes and reacts chemicals in living organisms.
View ArticleThe Evolutionary Secret of Body Segmentation
When UC Berkeley biologist Nipam Patel was searching for a new crustacean to study, one of his graduate students paid a visit to a large public aquarium. Rather than select an organism from one of the...
View ArticleMCB Faculty Honored by College
Professor Jeremy Thorner has received the 2004 L&S Distinguished Research Mentoring of Undergraduates Award and Professor Gary Firestone has been awarded the 2004 Rhoda H. Goldman Award for...
View ArticleEisen Receives Presidential Early Career Award
Assistant Professor Michael Eisen (Genetics & Development) was honored along with 4 other UC Berkeley junior faculty with the 2003 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers at a...
View ArticleFlipping The Switch On Cancer
Four years ago, a new weapon in the war on cancer made it to clinical trials accompanied by headlines and hope. Gleevec, a drug manufactured by Novartis, appeared to selectively turn off a specific...
View ArticleNeurobiology's Lighter Side
What happens when you touch a hot pan on the stove? You probably yell and yank your hand away. Between the sizzle and the scream though, an amazingly fast and complex cascade of cellular communication...
View ArticleLu Chen Recipient of 2004 Packard Fellowship
Assistant Professor Lu Chen has been awarded the prestigeous Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
View ArticleA Twist on Cancer DNA
Crammed inside every human cell are numerous strands of chromosomal DNA that, if laid end-to-end, would span a distance of about two meters. A special enzyme mechanically untangles the DNA, keeping our...
View ArticleUC Berkeley Ranked Second in the World
UC Berkeley has been ranked as the second best University in the world in a survey by the Times Higher Education Supplement, a remarkable achievement for a public university.
View ArticleDonald Glaser and his bubble chamber (1960)
A pressure cooker with windows? That was the basic idea behind the bubble chamber, a powerful instrument for the study of atomic particles that led to a 1960 Nobel Prize in Physics for its inventor, UC...
View ArticleForte Receives Sheikh Hamdan Award
Professor John Forte has been selected as a recipient of the 2003-2004 Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Research Excellence for the prevention & non-invasive therapy of...
View ArticleFly Guy
Nestled inside the human genome, there may be another secret code waiting to be deciphered. The human genome is now thought to contain 22,000 or so genes that code for proteins, the building blocks of...
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Kuriyan Receives Lounsbery Award
Professor John Kuriyan has been awarded the 2005 Richard Lounsbery Award by the National Acadamy of Sciences.
View ArticleNikaido Receives Freedom to Discover Award
Professor Hiroshi Nikaido has been awarded the Bristol-Myers Squibb "Freedom to Discover" Award for Distinguished Acheivement in Infectious Diseases Research.
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