Researchers from UC Berkeley MCB have found an unusual creature lurking in the briny shallows of Mono Lake in the Eastern Sierra Nevada — one that could tell scientists about the origin of animals more than 650 million years ago. news.berkeley.edu/2024/08/22/cre…

New adhesives from sustainably sourced alpha-lipoic acid could replace petroleum-based adhesives, particularly in surgical procedures engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2024/08/n… UC Berkeley Berkeley Engineering

Scientists UC Berkeley UC Davis are trying to reduce methane cow burps by reengineering microbes in the cow’s stomach wapo.st/3z1rGis Innovative Genomics Institute

Looking at the structure of >70,000 viral proteins, scientists find surprising similarities between those in human and animal viruses and the proteins in viruses that infect bacteria buff.ly/4cFzS60 via Gladstone Institutes @IGISci UC Berkeley UC Berkeley MCB

Graduate school is typically a time for extreme focus on research, but in the chemistry program at UC Berkeley, first-year graduate students are required to take a step back to consider the impact of their work on the world. cen.acs.org/education/grad… #STEM #STEMed

Can an orange mold change food waste into something delicious and nutritious? You bet! Microbiologist Vayu Hill-Maini UC Berkeley explains how it all works in a new video and story. news.berkeley.edu/2024/08/29/can… College of Chemistry Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI)

Chemists at UC Berkeley have created a new process that could represent a major step forward in recycling plastic products — from single-use bags commonly found in grocery stores to the harder materials like toys, yogurt tubs, coffee pods and luggage. kqed.org/science/199401…

Most of the plastic waste stream is PP or PE bags and bottles. A new catalytic process can vaporize both to create the building blocks of new plastics, potentially lessening the need to use fossil fuels news.berkeley.edu/2024/08/29/new… UC Berkeley College of Chemistry Berkeley Lab

Chemists from College of Chemistry are vaporizing plastics and turning them into building blocks for new plastics. If scaled up, this process could help create a circular economy for many throwaway plastics and reduce the fossil fuels used to make new plastics. news.berkeley.edu/2024/08/29/new…

To kill mammoths in the Ice Age, people used planted pikes, not throwing spears, researchers say: futurity.org/ice-age-mammot… #ResearchNews UC Berkeley UC Berkeley News

A pair of robust and inexpensive catalysts can help recycle mixtures of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), two of the most common and intractable types of plastic waste. cen.acs.org/environment/re… .

Researchers @UCSC UC Berkeley UC San Francisco to investigate genetic roots of autism, look for new treatments news.ucsc.edu/2024/08/cirm-a… via UC Santa Cruz

🎉 Exciting news! Dr. Ashok Gadgil, retired Berkeley Lab Senior Faculty Scientist, is featured in Bayh-Dole Coalition's "Faces of American Innovation" report! His UV Waterworks device purifies 4 gallons/min, transforming access to #CleanWater. 🏆👏 #ScienceSolutions bayhdolecoalition.org/bayh-dole-coal…

How many genes for the starch-digesting enzyme amylase to you have? More than your non-agricultural ancestors. It may affect how many cavities you get. news.berkeley.edu/2024/09/04/agr… UC Berkeley The University of Tennessee Health Science Center nature

UC Berkeley, LBNL working on new plastics #recycling tech cbsn.ws/4ecCz06 #chemicalrecyclying #sustainability

Congratulations to Doris Tsao UC Berkeley, who shares this year's Champalimaud Vision Award for work on the brain areas that recognize faces Berkeley Neuroscience

Announcing📣 the 2024 Blavatnik National Awards Laureates 🥇🥇🥇Each will receive $250,000! Congratulations👏👏👏 Landry Lab UC Berkeley @icefinrobot britschmidtney Cornell University @ckadoch Kadoch Lab @danafarbernews @danafarber HHMI Harvard Medical School @harvard blavatnikawards.org/news/items/202…

Clean air laws have reduced California pollution by 60% over the past 25 years, but people of color are still breathing worse air than other groups, new UC Berkeley research shows news.berkeley.edu/2024/09/11/cal…

Vera Rubin Observatory will be a "discovery machine,” says Raffaela Margutti UC Berkeley, who looks for photons produced by gravitational wave events rubinobservatory.org/news/multi-mes… #RubinObs Berkeley Physics Berkeley Astronomy

Congratulations to UC Berkeley astronomer Gibor Basri, recipient of 2024 Arthur B.C. Walker II Award for outstanding achievement in astronomy and education by an African- American scientist, from #ASP. buff.ly/47vowAD