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The grant recipients are part of the Zhang Lab, led by UC Berkeley professor of mechanical engineering Xiang Zhang, in which researchers will use the $2 million grant to build devices at the nanometer scale and exploit the electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional materials.

Campus researchers have found a way to lower blood glucose levels and reduce weight gain in mice through the injection of heat-generating fat cells.

UC Berkeley researchers have been awarded $5.8 million over five years from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to search for a quicker method of identifying types of potentially drug-resistant bacteria that infect patients.

Six teams of researchers will receive funding for projects focusing on the study of the brain, as a result of a new collaboration between UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The White House recently recognized UC Berkeley associate professor of mechanical engineering Lydia Sohn for her placement as one of five finalists last year in an international competition to develop new tools for scientists.

Recognizing the danger of this trend, many local governments and organizations are doing what they can to mitigate the impact on working people. Unfortunately, UC Berkeley is not one of them.

Researchers in UC Berkeley’s bioengineering department are developing parts of human organs on devices they call “biochips,” in an effort to transform the drug development industry by allowing for cheaper and more accurate testing.

Sam Hawgood, current interim chancellor of UC San Francisco, was appointed as the next chancellor of UCSF by UC President Janet Napolitano on Wednesday.

Treatment for HIV patients may soon be expanded due to research determining a new way to cripple the virus’s drug resistance, according to a report published last week by scientists from UC Berkeley and the National Institutes of Health.

The omnibus spending bill, passed by Congress in mid-January, officially withdraws what would have been a second round of cuts mandated by last year’s sequester — the budget plan that drained billions of dollars from government programs and, in turn, $370 million from the University of California's research pool.