http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Fri, 24 May 2013 21:18:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/30/research-news-briefs/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/30/research-news-briefs/#comments Wed, 30 Jan 2013 21:40:45 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33888 Research News Briefs: The star-nosed mole is helping researchers discover touch and pain receptors in humans. / The Keck Foundation is funding a project to insert tiny magnets into cells to make them easy to track with magnetic resonance imaging. / Feelings of awe make people more generous.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/30/research-news-briefs/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/23/nsf-efri-grant-for-berkeley-bioflex/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/23/nsf-efri-grant-for-berkeley-bioflex/#comments Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:55:02 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32721 The National Science Foundation has awarded $2 million over four years for a UC Berkeley project to develop flexible bioelectronics systems. The research would support the development of electronic materials that could not only be implanted into the body for medical applications such as wound healing, but that could also be safely resorbed into the body.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/23/nsf-efri-grant-for-berkeley-bioflex/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/13/qb3-helps-laid-off-workers-retool-for-new-careers/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/13/qb3-helps-laid-off-workers-retool-for-new-careers/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 23:00:15 +0000 Roibín Ó hÉochaidh http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32225 Laid-off workers are getting hands-on training in microfabrication at Berkeley's Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center through a collaborative technical-education initiative with Oakland's Laney College.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/08/13/qb3-helps-laid-off-workers-retool-for-new-careers/feed/ 0 http://www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=375&Itemid=1 http://www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=375&Itemid=1#comments Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:49:23 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=32570 Almost five years into its 10-year program to develop new energy alternatives using biological tools and methods, the Energy Biosciences Institute is moving its UC Berkeley headquarters and research labs into a modern new building. The western branch of the $500 million public-private collaboration will be housed in a five-story, 113,000-gross-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility. ]]> http://www.energybiosciencesinstitute.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=375&Itemid=1/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/05/13/electricity-from-viruses/ http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/05/13/electricity-from-viruses/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 17:18:42 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=30485 Scientists at UC Berkeley and Berkeley Lab have harnessed the electricity-generating capabilities of viruses, a development that could lead to pocket power plants for mobile devices. When researchers applied pressure to a generator made up of engineered M13 bacteria-eating viruses, they were able to produce enough current to equal a quarter the voltage of a triple A battery.]]> http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2012/05/13/electricity-from-viruses/feed/ 0 http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol6-issue2-mar12/lina-nilsson http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol6-issue2-mar12/lina-nilsson#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 17:19:36 +0000 Public Affairs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=27391 Postdoc Lina Nilsson and engineering colleagues have been developing low-cost, accessible devices for doing lab research — then sharing their blueprints and instructions online for creating do-it-yourself equipment. Their inventive concept won first place for social entrepreneurship in the 2010-11 Big Ideas @ Berkeley contest.]]> http://innovations.coe.berkeley.edu/vol6-issue2-mar12/lina-nilsson/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/19/researchers-turn-viruses-into-molecular-legos/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/19/researchers-turn-viruses-into-molecular-legos/#comments Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:00:10 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=18102 UC Berkeley researchers have turned a benign virus into building blocks for assembling structures that mimic collagen, one of the most important structural proteins in nature. The "self-templating assembly" process they developed could eventually be used to manufacture materials with tunable optical, biomedical and mechanical properties.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/10/19/researchers-turn-viruses-into-molecular-legos/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/reprogramming-muscles-to-combat-degeneration/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/reprogramming-muscles-to-combat-degeneration/#comments Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:02:36 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=16732 UC Berkeley researchers have turned back the clock on mature muscle tissue, coaxing it back to an earlier stem cell stage to form new muscle. Moreover, they showed in mice that the newly reprogrammed muscle stem cells could be used to help repair damaged tissue.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/reprogramming-muscles-to-combat-degeneration/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/03/16/standalone-lab-on-a-chip/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/03/16/standalone-lab-on-a-chip/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:43:52 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=7305 A major milestone in microfluidics could soon lead to stand-alone, self-powered chips that can diagnose diseases within minutes. The device, developed by researchers at UC Berkeley, Dublin City University in Ireland and Universidad de Valparaíso Chile, is able to process whole blood samples without the use of external tubing or external components.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/03/16/standalone-lab-on-a-chip/feed/ 0