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Sophia Lugo of Radar Therapeutics Named a Biocom Life Science Catalyst Award Winner

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SiteOne Therapeutics Announces a $100 Million Series C Financing to Advance Selective Ion Channel Modulators as Non-Opioid Treatments for Pain

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SiteOne Therapeutics, a Pain Biotech That’s Partnered With Vertex, Nabs $100M

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TeselaGen Launches Its Next-Gen Electronic Lab Notebook and Enhanced Interface to Accelerate Biotech Research

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Herd Mentality, Cell Therapy, and Pharma’s Future

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GigaGen Doses First Patient in Phase 1 Trial of Recombinant Polyclonal Drug Candidate, GIGA-2339, for Hepatitis B Virus

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Lygos Partners with Acme-Hardesty to Distribute Biodegradable Soltellus Polymers

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Pivot Bio N-Ovator Named One of TIME Magazine’s Top Innovations

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Pivot Bio’s sustainability programme reaches significant milestone

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Eight nanotechnology companies to watch out for

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Circle Pharma Announces First Patients Dosed in Phase 1 Clinical Trial of First-in-Class Oral Cyclin A/B RxL Inhibitor CID-078 for Advanced Solid Tumors

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Boehringer Ingelheim and Circle Pharma announce new research collaboration to develop a novel precision cancer treatment

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Boehringer unveils $607M deal to land Circle’s preclinical cancer program

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Department of Energy’s Agile BioFoundry and ABPDU Partner with Industrial Microbes to Successfully Scale Up Bio-Based Process

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Grifols’ GigaGen garners up to $135M from BARDA to tackle botulinum biothreat

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Xcell Biosciences Expands AmplifyBio Collaboration with Unique Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing Capabilities

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Pivot Bio Readies Brazilian Operation with Expanded Team

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BriaCell Therapeutics Announces $5 Million Offering

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2024 Climate Tech Companies to Watch: Pivot Bio and its nitrogen-delivering microbes

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Mission Bio Launches Innovative Single-cell Genome Integrity Solution to Measure Whole Genome Copy Number Variation in Advanced Therapies and Tumor Samples

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Glycomine Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for GLM101 for the Treatment of PMM2-CDG

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Targeting FDA OK for its test against deadly sepsis, [Inflammatix] raises $57 million

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Nexilico and Siolta Therapeutics Enter Collaboration Agreement to Develop a Novel Microbiome Therapeutic

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Inflammatix Scores $57 Million

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BriaCell Raises $8.5M Following Positive Results for Its Experimental Cancer Therapy

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Targeting FDA OK for Its Test Against Deadly Sepsis, South Bay Company [Inflammatix] Raises $57 Million

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Marabou and Perlara Join Forces to Cure Rare Genetic Diseases

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BriaCell raises $8.5M following positive results for its experimental cancer therapy

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Circle Pharma Closes $90 Million Series D Financing to Advance Innovative Oral Macrocycle Therapies

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Lygos and CJ BIO Partner on Commercial-scale Biorefinery Complex

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Xcell Biosciences Advances Labcorp Collaboration with Novel Platform for Automated Cell and Gene Therapy Manufacturing

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Lygos plans commercial plant for biobased chemicals

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Lygos and CJ BIO Partner on Commercial-scale Biorefinery Complex in Fort Dodge, Iowa

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ARIZ Precision Medicine Announces Grant of Key US Patent Covering Lead Cancer Drug

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TippingPoint Biosciences Closes New Funding to Support Drug for Rare Pediatric Brain Tumor

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FDA Grants Fast Track Designations to Caribou Biosciences’ CAR-T Cell Therapies

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Industrial Microbes, ZymoChem Win Awards in DoD Distributed Bioindustrial Manufacturing Program

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Mission Bio’s Tapestri Platform Utilized for Advancements in Gene-Edited T-Cell Therapy

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ARIZ Precision Medicine Announces Grant of Key US Patent Covering Lead Cancer Drug

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GigaGen Receives FDA Clearance of IND Application for Phase 1 Trial of Recombinant Polyclonal for HBV Treatment, GIGA-2339

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Concentric Analgesics Announces Peer-Reviewed Publication of Positive Phase 2 Clinical Data in ANESTHESIOLOGY

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Caribou Biosciences chRDNA Technology Provides a Unique Approach to CRISPR-Based Gene Editing

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Roche’s Oral GLP-1 Receptor Agonist Shows Promising Early Weight Loss Results in Phase 1

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Unleashing the Potential of Lab-Grown Recombinant Polyclonal Antibodies

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Caribou Axes Work on NK Cell Therapies, Trims Staff As CAR-Ts Take Centre Stage

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Steve Kanner, PhD, on Caribou’s chRDNA Technology

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KuriBio CEO Judee Sharon wins a Women In Entrepreneurial Science (WIES) Fellowship from UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute

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Radar Therapeutics CEO Sophia Lugo speaks at the RNA Leaders USA conference September 4-5, 2024 in San Diego

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Mindera Health Aims to Reduce Trial-and-Error Psoriasis Rx Scripts With mRNA Biomarker Test

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Circle Pharma Raises $54M as Part of Series D While Macrocycles Heat Up

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Unlocking Cell Therapy’s Full Potential by Rewiring T-Cell Metabolism

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Turner Selected to Build the Bakar ClimatEnginuity Hub at University of California-Berkeley

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Mission Bio Announces Launch of First Single-Cell Multiple Myeloma Multiomics Solution Aimed to Transform Translational Research and Therapy Development

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More Important Than Free Lab Space: Golden Ticket Opens the Door to Work With the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation

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Radar Therapeutics Raises $13 Million to Design Therapies Using RNA Sensors

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Biotech Startup CatenaBio Raises $2.35 Million in Seed Extension Round

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Caribou Biosciences Presents Encouraging Clinical Data from CB-010 ANTLER Phase 1 Trial in Second-line LBCL Patients

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What Does It Mean to Be an Innovative Company?

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GigaGen Doses First Subject in Phase I Advanced Solid Tumour Trial

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GigaGen Doses First Patient in Phase 1 Trial of Anti-CTLA-4 Oncology Drug Candidate GIGA-564 in Advanced Solid Tumors

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eFFECTOR Therapeutics to Collaborate with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute on an Investigator-Sponsored Phase 2 Clinical Trial

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Radar Therapeutics comes out of stealth with $13 million seed round to develop therapies using RNA sensors

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Sampling Human Ships its First Kits for Cellular Analysis to Early Access Customers

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Mekonos Enters Partnership Agreement with Accelerated Biosciences

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‘ChatGPT for CRISPR’ creates new gene-editing tools

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The search for useful proteins: Berkeley startup aims to turn generative AI into a gene-fixing tool

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Lygos Takes Aim at Multi-Billion Dollar Personal Care Industry with Soltellus

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Pivot Bio Sustainability Program Verifies the Avoidance of More than 315,000 MT of CO2e Since 2022

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Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR

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Profluent Successfully Edits Human Genome with OpenCRISPR-1, the World’s First AI-Created and Open-Source Gene Editor

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Mission Bio Launches Sample Multiplexing for Tapestri to Unlock Critical Single-Cell Insights for Oncology and Genome Editing Markets

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J&J Bolsters Car-T Goals With Serotiny Acquisition

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Xcell Biosciences Strengthens Cell and Gene Therapy Collaboration With Labcorp

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Meet The Disruptors: Anil Narasimha Of Mekonos On The Five Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry

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Funding Success for Seaweed-Based Bacon Startup

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‘If You Could Hallucinate a Protein’: Profluent Snags $35M for Generative AI Models

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GigaGen: Recombinant Polyclonal Antibodies for Viral Diseases

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Funding Success for Seaweed-Based Bacon Startup

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Meet The Disruptors: Anil Narasimha Of Mekonos On The Five Things You Need To Shake Up Your Industry

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How Pivot Bio Is Helping Farmers Generate More Income While Reducing Emissions

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Jenny Hamilton, CEO of Stealth Startup, Featured in Story of Jennifer Doudna’s Women in Enterprising Science Incubator

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Profluent Secures $35M in Additional Funding and Key Industry Experts to Scale Foundational AI Models for Biomedicine and Tackle First Vertical in Gene Editing

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Umaro Foods Raises $3.8M for Seaweed Bacon, is “Laser Focused on Undercutting Hormel and Smithfield on Cost”

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Glycomine Announces Encouraging Efficacy Data from Ongoing Phase 2 Clinical Study in PMM2-CDG

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Dupixent in a Pill? Startup Insamo Will Try To Turn Blockbuster Biologics Into Orals

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Minutia Is Using Nanosensors and Machine Learning to Bring Cell-Based Cures for Type 1 Diabetes to Market

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Insamo Pulls $12M Seed Round To Put Peptides Under a Magnifying Glass

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Lab-Grown Cells Planted Under Skin Offer Hope for Diabetes

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Pivot Bio, Iowa State Collaborate for New, $14 Million Ag Research and Education Facility

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4D Molecular Therapeutics Announces Pricing of $300M Public Offering

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How a Promise Sparked Ray CEO Paul Bresge’s Quest to Treat a Blinding Disease

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‘Innovation Zone’ Is Coming to Downtown Berkeley

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Gene Editing Delivery Biotech Genedit Partners With Genentech, Raises Another $24M

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Zymochem Secures $21M Series a Funding Round Led by Breakout Ventures With New Investments From Lululemon and Toyota Ventures

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FDA Clears AI That Predicts Alzheimer’s Progression From an MRI Scan

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In a First, UC Berkeley Showcasing Startups Around J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference

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With Funding in Hand, Tome Biosciences Buys Replace Therapeutics for $185M

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Tome Biosciences Acquires Replace Therapeutics

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Bakar Labs a Finalist for East Bay Innovation Award in Life Sciences

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GigaGen Receives FDA Clearance of IND to Begin Phase 1 Trial of Oncology Drug Candidate, GIGA-564, in Solid Tumors

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Glycomine Announces First Pediatric Patient Dosed in Phase 2 Clinical Study of GLM101, a Potential Treatment for PMM2-CDG

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Black Sheep’s Lamb Featured on Guy Fieri’s “Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives”

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Shiseido Long Term Investments for the Future (LIFT) Ventures Invests in Phi Therapeutics

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QBI’s Nevan Krogan Leads “Atlas of Autism Protein Interactions” Study

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Roche Pushes To Catch Up to Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy With $3.1Bn Deal for Obesity Drugmaker Carmot

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FDA Fast Tracks eFFECTOR Therapeutics’ Zotatifin Combo for ER+/HER2– Breast Cancer

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Sampling Human Subsidiary Xeno Wins Entrepreneurial Project of the Year Award from Czech Ministry for Industry and Trade

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Delpor’s Investigational Risperidone Implant Product Provides Schizophrenia Therapy for up to One Year after a Single Administration in Phase 1b/2a Patient Study

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Carmot Therapeutics Commenced Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Novel Dual GLP-1/GIP Receptor Agonist CT-868 for the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes

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Umaro Is on C&E News’ Radar

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Ray Therapeutics Receives $4M in Funding from The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

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GigaGen Presents IND-Enabling Data and Phase 1 Trial Strategy for its Novel Anti-CTLA-4 Oncology Drug Candidate

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Umaro, HOPO Win Joint ARPA-E Funding to Extract Rare Earth Elements from Seaweed

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Two Peninsula Drugmakers (Gilead & Assembly Bio) Cut R&D Deal Worth at Least $100M

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Carmot Therapeutics Highlights Clinical Data from its Pipeline of Treatments for Obesity and Diabetes at ObesityWeek®

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AbbVie Buys Mitokinin for $110 Million

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Bolt Threads, Formerly A Unicorn, Plans SPAC Deal At A $250 Million Valuation

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Navneet Matharu & Jenny Hamilton Win $2 Million in Seed Funding

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UC Berkeley Is Top University in Number of Companies Founded

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Via Nova Therapeutics Announces FDA Clearance of IND Application for VNT-101, a Novel Direct-Acting Antiviral Against Influenza A Virus

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ResVita Bio Receives NIH Grant to Develop Breakthrough Treatment for Severe Atopic Dermatitis

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BioSpace Features Bakar Labs Executive Mentoring and Internships

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This Pill Could Protect Us From Radiation After a Nuclear Meltdown

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Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Funds Nosis Bio to Design Gene Therapy Carriers

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Glyphic Biotechnologies Launches Berkeley Expansion

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Ray Therapeutics Licenses Delivery Technology for Optogenetics Therapy

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Via Nova’s Ben Taft on Challenges and Opportunities in Structure-Activity-Relationship Studies

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First Drug Trial in US for Pill To Guard Against Nuclear Accidents

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On a Personal Mission for His Daughter, Paul Bresge Launches Another Eye Disease Biotech With $100M for Ray Therapeutics

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Inspired by Founder’s Daughter, East Bay Startup Ray Therapeutics Raises $100M to Tackle Eye Diseases

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Why a Renovated Building at One of California’s Top Universities Marks a New Era of Learning

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AI-Enhanced Protein Design Makes Proteins That Have Never Existed

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Mekonos Announces Research Collaboration With bit.bio to Advance Cell Engineering

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‘Making History’: Vegan Women Summit To Serve Cell-Based Beef

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Ray Therapeutics: Anatomy Of A Biopharma VC Deal

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Coagulant Therapeutics Announces Publication in Blood Advances Describing Novel Nanobody Library to Activated Protein C and Initial Leads for Treatment of Trauma and Hemophilia

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Granatus Ventures Invests in Endometrics to Develop First-in-Kind Solution to Endometriosis

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Bakar Labs Named a Finalist for the 2024 CLS Pantheon Awards

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Collaborative Three-Campus QB3 Research Team Awarded $12 Million CIRM Grant to Study Origins of Autism in Diverse Population

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Launch of Bakar ClimatEnginuity Hub Unites UC Berkeley Climate Tech Community

"Berkeley's different from Las Vegas: what starts here does not end here," said Dan Kammen, a UC Berkeley professor of energy and founding director of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory, in his keynote address at the symposium to launch the Bakar ClimatEnginuity Hub (BCH), Berkeley's innovation center and incubator for climate technology. BCH will accelerate the commercialization of new technologies, sending them forth to be adopted by humanity across the world as we adapt to and combat climate change.

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UCSF Scientists Receive $26 Million in CIRM Grants To Advance Neuropsychiatric Disease Research Through the ReMIND Program

Associate Professors Tomasz Nowakowski, PhD, speaks with Alex Pollen, PhD, at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research Center.

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Researchers to Investigate Genetic Roots of Autism, Look for New Treatments

A member of the Braingeneers research group, Professor Sofie Salama will be an investigator on the newly funded project to investigate the genetic roots of autism. (photo by Carolyn Lagattuta)

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Bakar Climate Tech Incubator Recruiting Director of BD & Partnerships

The Bakar ClimatEnginuity Hub, expected to open during the 2027-2028 academic year, will provide a home for entrepreneurs in the burgeoning field of climate technology. The donor-funded facility will be located on the west side of campus at the site currently occupied by University Hall. Rendering by Gensler