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Tag: biosciences

Breakthrough Technique for Studying Gene Expression Takes Root in Plants

Researcher Christine Shulse tends to Arabidopsis in a lab at the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI).

Four Berkeley Lab Scientists Elected as National Academy of Sciences Members

Unique Synthetic Antibodies Show Promise for Improved Disease and Toxin Detection

Schematic of synthetic antibody formed by peptoid-carbon nanotube assemblies. The synthetic antibody can recognize lectin proteins – the target used in this proof-of-concept study – and their conjugate sugars.

Mouse Study Yields Long-Awaited Insights into Human Stomach Cancer

Pioneering Cancer Researcher Mina Bissell Receives Two Top Honors

Mina J. Bissell (Credit: Berkeley Lab)

Uncovering Uncultivated Microbes in the Human Gut

Engineering Living ‘Scaffolds’ for Building Materials

Using Tiny Organisms to Unlock Big Environmental Mysteries

A glass vial holds a water sample taken from a river

New Molecular Blueprint Advances Our Understanding of Photosynthesis

Image - The cryo-EM structure of the NAD(P)H dehydrogenase-like complex (NDH). The atomic coordinate model shown as spheres, colored according to the different subunits, in front of an electron micrograph of frozen NDH particles in the background. (Credit: Thomas Laughlin/UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab)

Potential New Way to Boost Biofuels and Bioproducts Production

Four Berkeley Lab Scientists Named AAAS Fellows

Scientists Capture Photosynthesis in Unprecedented Detail