In the News
CEND Investigators in the News
2009
New Images Capture Cells' Ribosomes at Work, Could Aid in Molecular War Against Disease, UC Berkeley News - August 2009 (Jamie Cate)
Phone Gadget to Diagnose Disease, BBC News - July 2009 (Dan Fletcher)
Jay Keasling Receives Inaugural Biotech Humanitarian Award, EarthTimes - May 2009 (Jay Keasling)
2008
Designed Pathways And Microbes, Chemical & Engineering News - Nov 2008 (Jay Keasling)
Build Your Own Cell: Local Scientists Work to Engineer Life, San Jose Mercury News - Nov 2008 (Jay Keasling)
Proteomics Study Yields Clues As To How Tuberculosis Might Be Thwarting The Immune System, Bioresearch Online - Nov 2008 (Carolyn Bertozzi, Jay Keasling)
A Fairer Fight Against Pathogens, ScienceMatters - July 2008 (Dan Portnoy)
Parasite vaccines within reach, UCB NewsCenter - July 2008 (Nilabh Shastri)
Center Takes Aim at Infectious Diseases, ScienceMatters - June 2008
Students Lead New Collaboration with Indian University, L&S News - June 2008
Sizing up proteins on a chip, Chemical Biology - June 2008 (Amy Herr)
Malaria drug to be made from 'synthetic biology' organism, Telegraph - June 2008 (Jay Keasling)
Malaria: a miracle in the making offers hope to millions worldwide, The Independent - June 2008 (Jay Keasling)
Synthetic yeast to brew up vital malaria drug, New Scientist - June 2008 (Jay Keasling)
Recruiting a Dangerous Foe to Fight Cancer and HIV, Scientific American - May 2008 (Dan Portnoy)
Launch of the Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases, UCB NewsCenter - May 2008
Mobile-phone microscopes, The Economist - May 2008 (Dan Fletcher)
A new patent bill draws sharp criticism from NGOs, Businessworld.in - May 2008 (Amy Kapczynski)
Bloody Small Microscope on a Phone, CITRIS Newsletter - April 2008 (Dan Fletcher)
An affordable way to treat malaria, ABC News - April 2008 (Jay Keasling)
Cell phone camera images patients' blood, Health Imaging - March 2008 (Dan Fletcher)
2007
Signaling an End to TB, ScienceMatters - Nov 2007 (Tom Alber)
Combine treatment to fight dangerous TB, Reuters - Oct 2007 (Wayne Getz)
Can't Cut This: Inhibiting TB Phosphatases, ScienceMatters - Aug 2007 (Jon Ellman)
Sarpong wins young investigator awards from Amgen, Abbott, Chemistry News - May 2008 (Richmond Sarpong)
A Hot and Cold Running Genius, The Scientist - Jan 2007 (Eva Harris)
2006
Scientist of the Year: Jay Keasling, Discover Magazine - Nov 2006 (Jay Keasling)
Listeriosis's path to miscarriage traced to placental infection, UCB NewsCenter - Jun 2006 (Dan Portnoy)
Milestone in quest for cheap antimalarial for the developing world, ScienceDaily - April 2006 (Jay Keasling, Richmond Sarpong)
Scientists Force Viruses to Evolve as Better Delivery Vehicles for Gene Therapy, ScienceDaily - Feb 2006 (Dave Schaffer)
2005
Using Fake Plants to Halt a Real Killer, Time Magazine - Dec 2005 (Jay Keasling)
UC Berkeley researchers probe details of how hepatitis C hijacks cells, UC Newsroom - Dec 2005 (Jennifer Doudna)
Small groups of superspreaders lead to most infections, new study says, UC Newsroom - Nov 2005 (Wayne Getz)
Scientists exploit HIV's noisy genetics to force virus into latency, UCB NewsCenter - Aug 2005 (Adam Arkin and Dave Schaffer)
New blood-based TB test matches up to old skin test in study among Indian health workers, UC Newsroom - June 2005 (Lee Riley, Art Reingold)
Millions of Lives on the Line in Malaria Battle, NY Times - January 2005 (Jay Keasling)
2004
Keasling and Cal: A perfect fit, UCB NewsCenter - Dec 2004 (Jay Keasling)
UC Berkeley, Samoa to Share Benefit from AIDS Drug, The Scientist - Oct 2004 (Jay Keasling)
Samoa makes deal with researchers: University will share profits if cloned gene works in AIDS fight, SF Chronicle - Oct 2004 (Jay Keasling)
The virus hijacker, UK Times Online - Aug 2004 (Adam Arkin and Dave Schaffer)
Hygiene is most potent force in tackling deadly diseases, ScienceDaily - July 2004 (Wayne Getz)
Designer Virus Stalks HIV, Wired - June 2004 (Adam Arkin and Dave Schaffer)
Technique plucks rapidly evolving genes from pathogen genomes, UCB NewsCenter - April 2004 (Michael Eisen)
2003
'Super-TB' created by scientists, BBC - Dec 2003 (Lee Riley)
How the Simple Side of High-Tech Medicine Makes the Developing World Better, NY Times - Sept 2003 (Eva Harris)
'Powerful' malaria drug developed, BBC - June 2003 (Jay Keasling)
Hitting malaria where it hurts, Research@Berkeley - Spring 2003 (Michael Marletta)
This Portnoy has no complaints, UCB NewsCenter - Apr 2003 (Dan Portnoy)
2000
A Pathogen's Wily Ways, Scientific American - 2000 (Dan Portnoy)
PCR at Home, Scientific American - 2000 (Eva Harris)