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Two University of California, Berkeley, faculty members will receive $30 million over the next five years from the U.S. Department of Energy to find better ways to separate carbon dioxide from power plant and natural gas well emissions and stick it permanently underground, according to an announcement on Monday, April 27 from the White House.Berend Smit, a professor of chemical engineering and of chemistry, and Donald DePaolo, a professor of earth and planetary science and head of the Earth...
Hybridized DNA is glue that sticks these cells together to resemble real tissueAs synthetic biologists cram more and more genes into microbes to make genetically engineered organisms produce ever more complex drugs and chemicals, two University of California chemists have gone a step further.They have assembled different types of genetically engineered cells into synthetic microtissues that can perform functions such as secreting and responding to hormones, promising more complex biological...
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the University of California, San Diego have developed a set of molecular tools that provide important insight into the complex genomes of multicellular organisms. The strategy promises to clarify the longstanding mystery of the role played by vast stretches of DNA sequence that do not code for the functional units"”genes"”that nevertheless may have a powerful...
The answer to what's killing the world's coral reefs may be found in a tiny chip that fits in the palm of your hand.Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Merced are using an innovative DNA array developed at Berkeley Lab to catalog the microbes that live among coral in the tropical waters off the coast of Puerto Rico. They found that as coral becomes diseased, the microbial population it supports grows much more diverse.It's unclear whether this...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Alliance to Save Energy today commended President-Elect Obama's selection for top energy and environmental posts of individuals who will be strong voices for developing and implementing sustainable energy policies and addressing global climate change: Nobel Prize winning physicist and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Director Stephen Chu as energy secretary; former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol Browner for...
Nobel Laureate George Smoot has been appointed director of a new cosmology institute in South Korea that will work closely with the year-old Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics (BCCP) at the University of California, Berkeley, to explore and understand the early universe.George Smoot (Peg Skorpinski photo) Last week, South Korea's Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology named Smoot a visiting scholar at Ewha (eee-hua) Womans University, a private university in Seoul where he will...
ANN ARBOR, Mich., PASADENA and BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Today marked the first-ever attempt to circulate a beam of subatomic particles around the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a gigantic particle accelerator spanning the French-Swiss border. The event represents a major milestone along the path towards a new understanding of the fundamental nature and origins of the universe. When the LHC officially begins its experiments, multiple terabytes of data per second will flow out...
Results critical to interpretation of GENESIS spacecraft samples of the sunA strange mix of oxygen found in a stony meteorite that exploded over Pueblito de Allende, Mexico nearly 40 years ago has puzzled scientists ever since. Small flecks of minerals lodged in the stone and thought to date from the beginning of the solar system have a pattern of oxygen types, or isotopes, that differs from those found in all known planetary rocks, including those from Earth, its Moon and meteorites from...
DATA CENTER ENERGY SUMMIT 2008 -- The Silicon Valley Leadership Group today released a preliminary report in conjunction with Accenture and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) documenting real-world data center energy savings from 17 projects in its Energy Efficient Data Center Demonstration Project, equaling the elimination of up to 45.1 million metric tons of CO2, or the equivalent of removing approximately 8 million cars from the road. The report projects a scenario that could...
