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There are lots of reasons to be appalled by bed bugs, starting with their creepy sex lives. And in the new California magazine, entomologist Gail Getty at Cal’s Urban Pest Management Center says the problem “is going to get worse, the numbers are going to go up.”
Tag: disease
Campus’s ‘socially responsible licensing’ receives Patents for Humanity award
April 11, 2013:
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office honored UC Berkeley’s technology transfer office for its socially responsible licensing to provide low-cost treatments and technologies to people in developing countries, highlighted by the successful licensing of a discovery leading to a newly launched yeast-derived malaria drug. Other projects are nutritionally fortified sorghum & disease-resistant crops.
Diet may treat some diseases due to genetic mutations
April 10, 2012:
Some genetic diseases, such as homocystinuria, are caused by a variety of genetic mutations, some causing worse symptoms than others. Jasper Rine and colleagues in QB3 have shown how to identify those mutations whose effects can be ameliorated by vitamin supplementation, which could help doctors tailor treatment to the individual patient.
Gates foundation awards $100,000 grants for novel global health research
May 10, 2010:
Two UC Berkeley scientists, Jennifer Doudna and John Ngai, each will receive a $100,000 Grand Challenges Explorations grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to explore innovative research that could impact global health.
