Biosciences News

Biosciences researchers have established a powerful new method that couples advanced infrared imaging techniques with statistical machine learning models to quickly and non-invasively determine with high accuracy whether an animal was exposed to radiation—even at extremely low doses almost three months post exposure.

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in changing conditions.

Héctor García Martín, a staff scientist in the Biological and Systems Engineering (BSE) Division, is working to accelerate and refine the synthetic biology landscape by applying artificial intelligence and the mathematical tools he mastered during his training as a physicist.

A biophysicist who dedicated his professional career to understanding the human health risks of heavy-ion exposures—such as the galactic cosmic rays encountered by space explorers—Stanley (Stan) Curtis helped write the book governing permissible radiation doses for U.S. astronauts. He was a researcher in Berkeley Lab’s Life Sciences Division for almost three decades prior to retiring in 1993. Curtis passed away at his home on Bainbridge Island, Wash., in February of this year. He was 92.

Biosciences Area Senior Faculty Researcher Jay Keasling and his research team have spent the past few decades engineering yeast to be tiny factories that more efficiently produce molecules that are typically found in small supply in nature. Now, they have modified yeast to make the adjuvant QS-21, an important additive to vaccines that stimulates the … Read more »