http://newscenter.berkeley.edu News from the University of California, Berkeley Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:00:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/06/11/five-new-bakar-fellows-pursue-path-to-marketplace/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/06/11/five-new-bakar-fellows-pursue-path-to-marketplace/#comments Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:44:06 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=35070 Five UC Berkeley scientists eager to take their lab-bench discoveries into the marketplace have been awarded Bakar Fellowships to help them achieve their goals. They are chemist Felix Fischer, biologist Daniela Kaufer, mechanical engineer Lydia Sohn, physicist Feng Wang and plant and microbial biologist Mary Wildermuth.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/06/11/five-new-bakar-fellows-pursue-path-to-marketplace/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/howard-hughes-medical-institute-names-three-new-campus-investigators/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/howard-hughes-medical-institute-names-three-new-campus-investigators/#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 13:00:46 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34475 Three young faculty members - Nicole King, Michael Rape & Russell Vance - have won the most sought-after appointment for a researcher at any American university: as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. The institute will pay their salaries in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology and provide research funding, freeing them from constant application for federal research grants.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/09/howard-hughes-medical-institute-names-three-new-campus-investigators/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/30/three-faculty-members-named-to-national-academy-of-sciences/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/30/three-faculty-members-named-to-national-academy-of-sciences/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:45:17 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34583 Structural biologist James Berger, immunologist Daniel Portnoy and mathematician James Sethian have been elected members of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the United States.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/30/three-faculty-members-named-to-national-academy-of-sciences/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/01/physics-nobelist-and-biotech-pioneer-donald-glaser-dies-at-86/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/01/physics-nobelist-and-biotech-pioneer-donald-glaser-dies-at-86/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:05:59 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=34105 Donald Glaser, a Nobel-prize winning physicist who reinvented himself as a biotech pioneer and later dove into the field of neurobiology, died in his sleep Thursday morning, Feb. 28, at his home in Berkeley. Glaser, a professor emeritus of physics and of molecular and cell biology, was 86.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/03/01/physics-nobelist-and-biotech-pioneer-donald-glaser-dies-at-86/feed/ 0 http://www.vilcek.org/prizes/prize-recipients/2013.html http://www.vilcek.org/prizes/prize-recipients/2013.html#comments Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:14:31 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33971 German-born Michael Rape, associate professor of molecular and cell biology, is one of three recipients of the 2013 Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science, which is awarded every year to immigrant scientists under 39 who have demonstrated outstanding achievement. The prize and $35,000 will be presented in April in New York City.]]> http://www.vilcek.org/prizes/prize-recipients/2013.html/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/30/research-news-briefs/#magnetotactic http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/30/research-news-briefs/#magnetotactic#comments Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:47:11 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33958 Research News Brief: Taking a hint from magnetotactic bacteria, which make their own tiny bar magnets, UC Berkeley scientists are trying to endow other cells with internal magnets so that they can be tracked with MRI.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/30/research-news-briefs/#magnetotactic/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/11/john-forte-researcher-on-acid-secreting-stomach-cells-has-died-at-77/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/11/john-forte-researcher-on-acid-secreting-stomach-cells-has-died-at-77/#comments Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:55:47 +0000 Robert Sanders http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33811 John G. Forte, a UC Berkeley physiologist whose work on acid-secreting cells in the stomach pointed the way to treatments for ulcers, died peacefully at his home in Berkeley on Nov. 19, 2012, following a prolonged battle with leukemia. He was 77.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/11/john-forte-researcher-on-acid-secreting-stomach-cells-has-died-at-77/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/17/malignant-breast-cells-grow-normally-when-compressed/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/17/malignant-breast-cells-grow-normally-when-compressed/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:00:31 +0000 Sarah Yang http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=33554 UC Berkeley researchers have found that compression can guide malignant breast cells back to a normal growth pattern. The findings, presented at the American Society for Cell Biology meeting, demonstrate the influence of mechanical forces on a cell's destiny. ]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/17/malignant-breast-cells-grow-normally-when-compressed/feed/ 0 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/30/persons-of-interest-patty-garcia/ http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/30/persons-of-interest-patty-garcia/#comments Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:27:00 +0000 Roibín Ó hÉochaidh http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/?p=27680 Persons of Interest: Immunology grad student Patty Garcia chips away at the barriers that divide science and society, while puzzling out the molecular mechanics of cancer.]]> http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/30/persons-of-interest-patty-garcia/feed/ 0