Mary Maxon

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or LBNL, Director Mike Witherfell appointed Paul Adams as the lab's associate director of biosciences Jan. 31 following an international search for potential candidates.

The Department of Energy, along with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, or LBNL, held the Innovation XLab: Biomanufacturing Summit in California Memorial Stadium on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Often overlooked because of their diminutive size, microbiomes — communities of microorganisms — are now the central focus of a paper published Friday by a team of scientists, proposing that large-scale research on the world’s smallest organisms could result in major breakthroughs in myriad fields of science.