By Danielle Puretz Good afternoon friends, family, faculty, and graduates. For many of us the Global Poverty courses we have taken together have been our
Veena Narashiman ‘2020 According to a December 2017 report of the University of California Global Food Initiative, 44 percent of UC undergraduates experience some type
New Courses Will Link Scholarship and Community Action By: Luis Flores and Rachel Voss April 18, 2013 – Dr. Khalid Kadir, Blum Center Lecturer, and
A collaboration between Blum Center Research Director and bioengineering professor Dan Fletcher, Professor Jennifer Doudna of UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute, and Dr. Melanie Ott of UCSF’s Gladstones Institutes is developing a CRISPR-Cas13a-based diagnostic to rapidly detect SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
In this WSJ op-ed, Nobel prize-winning CRISPR co-inventor Jennifer Doudna describes UC Berkeley’s research response to the pandemic, including the creation of a new rapid, point-of-need COVID test developed with Blum Center Research Director and CellScope inventor Dan Fletcher.
