2008

November 15, 2008, McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Conference explores Bay Area's hot new field of synthetic biology

November 10, 2008, Associated Press
US, Canadian professors awarded Kyoto Prize

November 8, 2008, Oakland Tribune
Two UC Berkeley post doctorates up for National Inventors Hall of Fame award

October 31, 2008, San Francisco Business Times
America needs a double-helix hero, says UCSF prof

October 14, 2008, Wall Street Journal
Scientists try to domesticate Mother Nature, 'super bugs' for fuel

October 14, 2008, Chemistry World
Enzymes hit with double punch

September 29, 2008, Mint
Indian scientists to partner in making genetic cancer drug

September 24, 2008, Technology Review
The latest forensic weapon is a device that identifies crime scene DNA in a few hours

September 22, 2008, Voice of America
Joseph DeRisi battles malaria with innovation and openness

September 22, 2008, Discover Magazine
Science Policy Project: Jay Keasling

September 16, 2008, San Francisco Chronicle
Changing diet, exercise found to extend lives

September 5, 2008, San Francisco Chronicle
Students do cutting-edge biotech work

August 12, 2008, HHMI News
Studies aim to preempt resistance to new class of cancer drugs

August 8, 2008, San Francisco Business Times
How San Francisco caught Pfizer

August 8, 2008, San Francisco Business Times
QB3 Garage startup snapped up for $25M

July 30, 2008, Biotech Transfer Week
Affymetrix’s $25M True Materials buy is most recent graduate of QB3 Garage incubator

July 2, 2008, Technology Review
Taking vitamins based on your genome

July 2, 2008, Chemical & Engineering News
Microspheres read DNA microarrays

June 10, 2008, San Francisco Chronicle
UCSF, Pfizer sign collaborative research deal

June 3, 2008, Daily Telegraph
Malaria drug to be made from 'synthetic biology' organism

June 3, 2008, Independent
Malaria: a miracle in the making offers hope to millions worldwide

May 20, 2008, Chemical Technology
Hydrogel helps the medicine go down

May 19, 2008, Chicago Tribune
Termites hold clue to replace corn in ethanol

May 15, 2008, Economist
Doctor on call

May 9, 2008, ScienceDaily
Photosynthetic dimmer switch for plants identified

May 9, 2008, DailyTech
New MRI technique promises thousands of times more sensitivity

April 29, 2008, ScienceNews
Molten salts give biofuels a boost

April 2, 2008, Boston Globe
A quest to create life out of synthetics

April 1, 2008, The Journal of Life Sciences
The smiling heretic

April 1, 2008, Discovery News
Sniff this: Artificial 'nose' scouts for bombs

March 19, 2008, Technology Review
Remote Microscopy

March 17, 2008, New Scientist
'Tumour factory' to accelerate cancer drug development

March 14, 2008, Science
Molecular biology: On ends and means

March 3, 2008, Astrobiology Magazine
NASA’s wine sniffer

March 3, 2008, Wall Street Journal
Yeast may hold key to cheaper malaria therapy

February 7, 2008, Chemical Biology
Peptide coupling for potential cancer targeting

January 27, 2008, Washington Post
Alzheimer's research target may be a dead end

January 18, 2008, San Francisco Business Times
Biotechs seek $150M for incubators

January 9, 2008, Nature (subscription required)
Cell biology: Bacteria's new bones

January 9, 2008, Bloomberg
Supergene labs design microbes to change sun to fuel, eat waste

January 9, 2008, Science Daily
Researchers use magnetic fields, rather than drugs, to control cellular signaling

January 7, 2008, ScienceNOW
Biofuels on a big scale