Colorful illustration of spherical lipid nanoparticles.

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 Digital illustration of coiled molecules assembled into larger constructs.

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 An illustration in hues of purple, fuchsia, and cyan of DNA being transcribed into RNA to build a protein. Enhancers help activate this process.
  • Deepti Tanjore to Head ABPDU

    Deepti Tanjore to Head ABPDU

    Deepti Tanjore has been selected to be the next Program Head of the Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU). She has served as the Interim Program Head of the ABPDU since March 2019. She will also lead the Process Engineering and Analytics Department of the Biological Systems and Engineering (BSE) Division.

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  • Keasling Featured in NHK World, Japan’s Public TV Station

    Jay Keasling, JBEI’s Chief Executive Officer, was featured in NHK World’s interview program “Direct Talk”. Keasling, a pioneer of synthetic biology, talks about the impact that this interdisciplinary technology can have in people’s lives as well as addresses its safety concerns. Direct Talk is a program that interviews leaders, visionaries and pioneers who shape the world and is broadcast to 300-million households in 160 countries in six different language subtitles. Watch the interview

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  • Exploring Human Origins in the Uncharted Territory of Our Chromosomes

    Exploring Human Origins in the Uncharted Territory of Our Chromosomes

    A group of geneticists from Berkeley Lab, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley are unraveling new details about human evolution by studying the uniquely regulated portion of our chromosomes that surround the centromeres. These stretches of DNA – termed centromere-proximal regions (CPRs) – are largely composed of highly repetitive, mostly non-gene-coding sequences that […]

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  • More Investment Needed for Machine Learning for Bioengineering

    In an opinion piece published July 19 in ACS Synthetic Biology, Hector Garcia Martin and Tijana Radivojevic of the Biosciences Area’s Biological Systems & Engineering Division collaborated with Pablo Carbonell of the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology’s SynBioChem Centre, to highlight the opportunities in a radical new approach to bioengineering that leverages the latest disruptive advances in machine learning.

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  • Blue Pigment from Engineered Fungi Could Help Turn the Textile Industry Green

    Scientists at the Joint BioEnergy Institute developed a new biosynthetic production pathway which could provide a sustainable alternative to conventional synthetic blue dye. The highly efficient fungi-based platform may also open the door for producing many other valuable biological compounds that are currently very hard to manufacture. Read more in the JBEI website.

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