A team of scientists from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Janelia Research Campus designed a fluorescent protein (CaMPARI) that causes permanent marking of active brain cells. They validated this new tool via x-ray crystallographic studies at the Berkeley Center for Structural Biology at the Advanced Light Source.
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Jennifer Doudna and James Nunez led a study at the Advanced Light Source that revealed the structural basis by which bacteria are able to capture genetic information from viruses and other foreign invaders for their own immunological system. This discovery holds promise for studying or correcting problems in human genomes.
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Scientists from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have set out to help build the world’s first total-body positron emission tomography (PET) scanner, a medical imaging device that could change the way cancers and other diseases are diagnosed and treated. The project is a consortium led by a UC Davis research team … Read more »
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Jennifer Doudna, a biochemist in the Lab’s Molecular Biophysics & Integrated Bioimaging Division and the inventor of a revolutionary gene-editing tool, was named one of five laureates of the 2016 L’Oréal-UNESCO for Women in Science Awards in the field of life sciences.
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Scientists at MIT and Berkeley Lab have developed a new type of catalyst that can be tuned to promote desired chemical reactions, potentially enabling the replacement of expensive and rare metals in fuel cells. Carbon is used as the primary material for electrodes in batteries and fuel cells, and the new catalyst is carbon-based, containing … Read more »
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