Scientists in the San Francisco Bay Area identify nearly 200 potential drug targets Tuberculosis is one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide. Nearly 2 million people die every y... Read more
Team led by Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers exploits tiny defects in diamonds to pave the way for enhanced biological imaging and drug studies It may sound contradictory,... Read more
What if we could edit the sensations we feel; paste in our brain pictures that we never saw, cut out unwanted pain or insert non-existent scents into memory? UC Berkeley neuroscien... Read more
More than 30 years ago, when UC Berkeley researchers discovered telomerase — an enzyme that lengthens chromosome ends and prevents them from fraying enough to kill a cell — specula... Read more
New manufacturing process will enable photonic communication in consumer devices A new microchip technology capable of optically transferring data could solve a severe bottleneck i... Read more
Nearly 70 percent of the energy produced in the United States each year is wasted as heat. Much of that heat is less than 100 degrees Celsius and emanates from things like computer... Read more
In 2016, UC Berkeley engineers demonstrated the first implanted, ultrasonic neural dust sensors, bringing closer the day when a Fitbit-like device could monitor internal nerves, mu... Read more
MIT-developed system could provide drinking water even in extremely arid locations It seems like getting something for nothing, but you really can get drinkable water right out of... Read more
In a breakthrough that could lead to a new class of materials with functions found only in living systems, scientists at the UC Berkeley have figured out a way to keep certain prot... Read more
EPFL chemists have developed a new material that can remove heavy metals from water and make it drinkable in seconds. The study is published in ACS Central Science. According to th... Read more
Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley researchers say “iterative Random Forests” will deliver powerful scientific insights While it may be the era of supercomputers and “big data,” without... Read more
Innovative computational imaging approach could advance applications from brain research to self-driving cars Researchers have developed an easy-to-build camera that produces 3D im... Read more
While additive manufacturing (AM), commonly known as 3D printing, is enabling engineers and scientists to build parts in configurations and designs never before possible, the impac... Read more
UC Berkeley researchers have developed a robotic learning technology that enables robots to imagine the future of their actions so they can figure out how to manipulate objects the... Read more
Transistors based on carbon nanostructures: what sounds like a futuristic dream could be reality in just a few years’ time. An international research team working with Empa h... Read more
