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At a cozy watering hole in downtown Oakland, California, budding scientists wield an unconventional weapon to help fight ...
Scientists find that some bacteria located in the gut produce electricity in a new way not previously known.
Ben Blackman, Ph.D.was recently awarded a five-year, multi-million dollar grant from the National Science Foundation, Blackman and his associates are excited to start research.....
Two new faculty members, Ksenia Krasileva and Sabeeha Merchant, join PMB in 2018.
This fall new students and faculty will take to the Berkeley campus. PMB welcomes Ksenia Krasileva....
National Science Foundation support will help scientists employ CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to domesticate alternative food crop sources.
The College of Natural Resources has a new dean, plant ecologist and evolutionary biologist David Ackerly.
New research from Adam Deutschbauer is the largest functional genomics study of bacteria ever published.
College of Natural Resources faculty, including Brian Staskawicz, faculty lead wide-ranging research initiatives at the Innovative Genomics Institute.
New research examines drought tolerance in sorghum—a finding that could help scientists develop crops that are more resistant to climate change.
Researchers, including PhD candidate Rachel Li and adjunct professor Henrik Scheller, have created strains of brewer's yeast that produce a hoppy flavor without the use of hops.
Researchers have improved how crops use water by altering the expression of a gene found in all plants.
New research from Krishna Niyogi sheds light on plant photoprotection mechanisms.
PMB scientists have identified the first natural example of a pathway for carbon dioxide fixation previously thought to be only synthetically derived.
The Hellman Fellows Program supports junior faculty research on the ten UC system campuses and at four private institutions.
Sarah Hake and researchers from the Danforth Science Center have been awarded a $3.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation.
Three Cal Scientists Shift Focus from Biofuels to Prebiotics.
This award program is open to exceptional undergraduate and graduate students studying plant biology.
PMB scientists locate the gene that played a critical role in domesticating corn.