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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has been a leader in science and engineering research for more than 70 years. Located on a 200 acre site in the hills above the Berkeley campus of the University of California, overlooking the San Francisco Bay, Berkeley Lab is a US Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratory managed by the University of California. It has an annual budget of nearly $480 million (FY2002) and employs a staff of about 3,900, including more than a thousand students.Berkeley Lab conducts unclassified research across a wide range of scientific disciplines with key efforts in fundamental studies of the universe; quantitative biology; nanoscience; new energy systems and environmental solutions; and the use of integrated computing as a tool for discovery. It is organized into 17 scientific divisions and hosts four DOE national user facilities. Details on Berkeley Lab’s divisions and user facilities can be viewed here. The Lab was founded in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cyclotron, a circular particle accelerator that opened the door to high-energy physics. It was Lawrence’s belief that scientific research is best done through teams of individuals with different fields of expertise, working together. His teamwork concept is a Berkeley Lab legacy that has yielded rich dividends in basic knowledge and applied technology, and a profusion of awards, including nine Nobel Prizes -- five in physics and four in chemistry. |
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The term 'Molecular Foundry' suggests a place where objects are forged and new materials are molded. Like the foundries of the industrial revolution, this new concept, on a nanoscale, promises to revolutionize the way the world works. It began at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. |
23 July 2006 |
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have completed the first successful test to evaluate automated demand response at five large building facilities. Demand-response technology manages electrical use in the buildings over the internet, whenever high prices, blackouts, or overloaded electrical demand threaten the power grid. |
23 July 2006 |
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Vast regions of the human genome thought to be genetic 'deserts' harboring DNA sequences of no value may actually contain heretofore hidden nuggets of DNA gold. A team of researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute compared DNA sequences from gene deserts in the genomes of humans, mice, frogs and fish and discovered sequences that regulate the 'expression' or activation of genes over surprisingly long distances. |
22 July 2006 |
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A team led by Michael Crommie, a staff scientist in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Materials Sciences Division and a professor of physics at the University of California at Berkeley, has used a scanning tunneling microscope to attach individual potassium atoms to isolated carbon-60 molecules. |
22 July 2006 |
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In a case of the plot thickening as the mystery unfolds, the Higgs boson has just gotten heavier, even though the subatomic particle has yet to be found. In a letter to the scientific journal Nature, an international collaboration of scientists working at the Tevatron accelerator of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), report the most precise measurements yet for the mass of the top quark, a subatomic particle that has been found, and this requires an upward revision for the long-postulated but still undetected Higgs boson. |
21 July 2006 |
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Computer simulations, or experiments in silico, paved the way for subsequent genetic and biochemical experiments that yielded new information on how the body's immune system gets sent into action. This new information has resolved a scientific controversy and holds therapetuic implications for autoimmunity. |
21 July 2006 |
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Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, working with colleagues at the European Southern Observatory and the University of Texas at Austin, have established that the extraordinarily bright and remarkably similar astronomical 'standard candles' known as Type Ia supernovae do not explode in a perfectly spherical manner. |
21 July 2006 |
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Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found new ways of combining quantum dots and segmented nanorods into multiply branching forms and have applied new ways to calculate the electronic properties of these nanostructures, whose dimensions are measured in billionths of a meter. |
20 July 2006 |
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A significant breakthrough in the development of the highly prized semiconductor gallium nitride as a building block for nanotechnology has been achieved by a team of scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley. |
19 July 2006 |
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Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have invented an aerosol-based system called MASIS for sealing the ducts of large commercial buildings. The research was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. |
19 July 2006 |
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Backed by nearly $4 million in funding from three Federal agencies, researchers in California and Virginia are joining forces to learn the genetic secrets of a notorious plant pathogen that causes billions of dollars a year in damage to forests and soybean crops. |
18 July 2006 |
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A nanocrystalline metal is one whose average grain size is measured in billionths of a meter, much smaller than in most ordinary metals. As the grain size of a metal shrinks, it can become many times stronger, but it also usually loses ductility. To take advantage of increasing strength with decreasing grain size, researchers must first understand a fundamental problem: by what processes do nanosized crystals of metal stretch, bend, or otherwise deform under strain? |
18 July 2006 |
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Pharmaceutical companies seeking to design more effective cancer chemotherapy agents may have an easier road ahead than was previously believed. A team of researchers, led by a scientist with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has shown that two of the most promising anticancer drug families, the taxanes, which include Taxol, and the epothilones, have their own unique and independent mechanisms for combating the spread of tumors. This revelation provides drug designers with a great deal more flexibility in synthesizing new and improved forms of each. |
17 July 2006 |
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In their continuing search for new clues to how human genes function and how vertebrates develop and evolve, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute are gearing up to map the DNA of a diminutive, fast-growing African frog named Xenopus tropicalis. |
17 July 2006 |
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One day our electronic technology, which is based on the manipulation of electrons, could be supplanted by photonics, which is based on the manipulation of light waves (photons). If the promise of photonic technology is realized, the high-speed processing and movement of data today will seem so sludgelike, people of the future will wonder how we ever got anything done. Photonic technology is still a long way down the road but the goal is a few steps closer now. |
16 July 2006 |
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In the world of physics, one of the most elusive events is the creation and detection of 'quark-gluon plasma,' the theorized atomic outcome of the 'Big Bang' which could provide insight into the origins of the universe. By using experiments that involve millions of particle collisions, researchers hope to find unambiguous evidence of quark-gluon plasma. |
16 July 2006 |
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Scientists have been able to follow the flow of excitation energy in both time and space in a molecular complex using a new technique called two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy. While holding great promise for a broad range of applications, this technique has already been used to make a surprise finding about the process of photosynthesis. The technique was developed by a team of researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley. |
15 July 2006 |
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The use of highly-efficient, cost-effective white light-emitting diodes as a replacement for inefficient, polluting kerosene lamps common in the developing world, could potentially save tens of billions of dollars per year worldwide, according to a scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. |
15 July 2006 |
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Researchers in the Life Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a key molecular pathway by which an enzyme that normally helps remodel tissues initiates the pathway to breast cancer. The same molecular pathway, the researchers found, links both the loss of tissue organization in cancerous organs and the loss of genomic stability in individual cancer cells. |
14 July 2006 |
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Construction is now underway for a most unusual telescope, one whose light collecting 'mirror' will be buried more than a mile beneath the South Pole ice cap. Dubbed IceCube, because its array of detectors covers a cubic kilometer of ice, this telescope is designed not to capture starlight, but to study the high-energy variety of the ghostlike subatomic particles known as neutrinos. |
14 July 2006 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are teaming with educators at the Peralta Community College District in Oakland, California to train community college students in the latest techniques of managing buildings for maximum energy efficiency. |
13 July 2006 |
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Computational and combustion scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have earned national recognition in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences with a cover article about unparalleled computer simulations of turbulent flames. |
13 July 2006 |
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What is the mysterious dark energy that's causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate? Is it some form of Einstein's famous cosmological constant, or is it an exotic repulsive force, dubbed 'quintessence,' that could make up as much as three-quarters of the cosmos? Scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Dartmouth College believe there is a way to find out. |
12 July 2006 |
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First they were seen to go away, now, for the first time, they've been seen coming back. An international team of researchers at KamLAND, an underground neutrino detector in central Japan, has shown that not only do anti-neutrinos emanating from nearby nuclear reactors 'disappear,' they also 'reappear.' This is further evidence that the three known types or 'flavors' of neutrinos, electron, muon and tau, all have mass and can oscillate or change from one type to another. |
12 July 2006 |
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An ion-beam system that simultaneously combines focused beams of electrons and positive ions promises to improve the versatility, efficiency, and economy of this important technology. The new system was developed by researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who report its principles and applications in the Applied Physics Letters. |
11 July 2006 |
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A breakthrough in the technology of nuclear magnetic resonance, one of the most powerful analytic tools known to science, is opening the door to new applications in microfluidic chips, devices for studying super-tiny amounts of fluids. A team of scientists with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California, Berkeley, has demonstrated a means by which NMR can be made compatible with microfluidic 'lab-on-a-chip' devices. |
11 July 2006 |
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A team of scientists led by Priscilla Cooper, a senior staff scientist in the Life Sciences Division of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has discovered new players in the first steps of transcription-coupled repair, an essential but still mysterious mechanism of DNA repair. |
10 July 2006 |
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Sometimes, it pays to think small. By observing how a single electron behaves amid a cluster of water molecules, a team of scientists has gained a better understanding of a fundamental process that drives a myriad of biological and chemical phenomena, such as the formation of reactive molecules in the body that can cause disease. |
10 July 2006 |
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Four years ago Carolyn Bertozzi, a member of the Materials Sciences Division at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, introduced a new way of engineering the surfaces of cells, by arming cell-surface sugars to take part in a modified chemical reaction known as the Staudinger ligation. |
09 July 2006 |
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An experiment that began as a 'fantasy pipe dream' just three years ago is now a reality. Researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley, combining nanotechnology with biochemistry, have created unique synthetic membranes that, for the first time ever, enable them to directly control signaling activity in living T cells from the immune system. Already their experiments have yielded surprising results. |
09 July 2006 |
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Scientists have uncovered key new information towards understanding the crucial first step in protein synthesis, the process by which the genetic code, harbored within DNA and copied into RNA, is translated into the production of proteins. This new information also helps to explain how viruses, such as Hepatitis C, are able to highjack protein synthesis machinery in humans for their own purposes. |
08 July 2006 |
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The next generation of artificial bone may rely on a few secrets from the sea. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have harnessed the way seawater freezes to develop a porous, scaffolding-like material that is four times stronger than material currently used in synthetic bone. |
07 July 2006 |
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A new technique in which single strands of synthetic DNA are used to firmly fasten biological cells to non-biological surfaces has been developed by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley. This technique holds promise for a wide variety of applications, including biosensors, drug-screening technologies, the growing of artificial tissues and the design of neural networks. |
06 July 2006 |
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A chemical profiling technique that has potential for detecting the onset of cancer at the cellular level has been developed by scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley. |
05 July 2006 |
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A team of scientists from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Scripps Research Institute has determined the crystal structure and molecular mechanisms of a key part of WRN, a protein that protects humans from premature aging and cancer. |
04 July 2006 |
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Some aspects of evolution are like the real estate business in that it's all about location, location, location! Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the DOE Joint Genome Institute have shown that when it comes to comparing evolutionarily conserved DNA sequences that regulate the expression of genes, more closely related species are best. |
03 July 2006 |
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A collaboration of scientists led by researchers with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has uncovered clues at the atomic level that could lead to a new generation of much tougher advanced ceramics to be used in applications like gas turbine engines. |
09 December 2004 |
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Just as the Microtechnology Age was built upon the introduction of impurities into crystals of semiconductor materials, so, too, will crystalline doping be the bedrock upon which the Nanotechnology Age is built.
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11 November 2004 |
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Another important step towards realizing the promise of lightning fast photonic technology has been taken by scientists with the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California at Berkeley. |
01 September 2004 |
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A team of researchers headed by Scott X. Mao of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the University of Pittsburgh, working at the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and using high-quality samples of nickel prepared at DOE's Sandia National Laboratories, has now identified a prominent way in which nanocrystalline metals deform. |
02 August 2004 |
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A new three-year public-private research initiative, which will target substantial reductions in the $100 billion spent annually in energy costs for commercial buildings, has been launched under the leadership of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
More than $13 million in research funding has been committed by the California Energy Commission, the DOE, private sector partners and Pacific Gas & Electric. |
24 August 2002 |
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For the first time, researchers have made direct images of the alignment of magnetic domains on both sides of an interface between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic films, an example of 'pinning' in the kind of layered magnetic structure vital to today's advanced computer recording heads and to the memory devices of the future. Their accomplishment is reported in the June 15, 2000, issue of the journal Nature. |
14 June 2002 |
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Scientists at Berkeley have reported the first direct observations of what happens when the message of a gene is being read during the actual transcription of single DNA molecules. Using a unique experimental setup they designed themselves, the researchers followed transcription by single molecules of RNA polymerase, the enzyme responsible for reading the genetic message in humans and other higher organisms as well as bacteria. Their observations provide new insights into how genetic expression in cells may be regulated. |
03 April 2002 |
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A new generation of solar cells that combines nanotechnology with plastic electronics has been launched with the development of a semiconductor-polymer photovoltaic device by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley. Such hybrid solar cells will be cheaper and easier to make than their semiconductor counterparts, and could be made in the same nearly infinite variety of shapes as pure polymers. |
29 March 2002 |
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The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory today announced that the first phase of its new IBM RS/6000 SP system has met a demanding set of performance benchmarks and is now ready for full use by researchers across the nation. |
28 March 2002 |
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In 90 years of study, the diminutive fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has yielded many of the most fundamental discoveries in genetics, beginning with proof, in 1916, that the genes are located on the chromosomes. Only during the last year has the fly's whole genome been sequenced, however, and its 13,601 individual genes enumerated. |
23 March 2002 |
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No, the 'Staudinger ligation' isn't the latest Robert Ludlum thriller; it's a new chemical reaction in a growing arsenal of cell engineering techniques developed by Carolyn Bertozzi of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a pioneer in modifying the surfaces of living cells. |
16 March 2002 |
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Size matters a lot in the world of electronics and will matter even more in the upcoming age of nanotechnology where devices may be a thousand times smaller than the microchips of today. But shape matters too. To date, experimental nanocrystals fashioned from semiconductors have all been shaped like dots or spheres. No longer. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have learned to make semiconductor nanocrystals that are shaped like rods. |
06 March 2002 |
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new high-performance, energy-efficient table lamp that is designed to save energy in homes and offices while greatly increasing lighting quality and visibility. |
06 March 2002 |
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To the small list of genes that play a role in the development of breast cancer can now be added the name ZNF217. Multiple copies of this gene were found to remove natural restrictions on cell growth and thereby increase the chances for malignancy in a study jointly conducted by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at San Francisco. |
03 March 2002 |
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Hoping to save the paper manufacturing industry millions of dollars in energy costs, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Institute of Paper Science & Technology engineers have developed a laser ultrasonic sensor that measures paper's flexibility as it courses through a production web at up to 65 miles per hour. The project's principal investigators are Rick Russo and Chuck Habeger. |
25 February 2002 |
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will catch nearby supernovae in the act of exploding at prescheduled times, the targets to be supplied 'on demand' for the first time. Spectra from these nearby supernovae will be used to calibrate measurements of the accelerating expansion of the universe. |
10 January 2002 |
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Scientists, using information from the Human Genome Project, have identified a new apolipoprotein that appears to play a significant role in controlling triglyceride levels in the blood. Triglycerides are one of the two major blood fats, along with cholesterol, that are important risk factors in the development of heart disease. |
05 October 2001 |
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory will help lead the development of a new generation of tools and technologies for scientific computing under a new $57 million program announced August 14 by the DOE. Under the program, called Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing, Berkeley Lab scientists will lead six of the projects and are key partners in another six projects. |
15 August 2001 |
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David H. Bailey, chief technologist of the Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and his colleague Richard Crandall, director of the Center for Advanced Computation at Reed College, Portland, Oregon, have taken a major step toward answering the age-old question of whether the digits of pi and other math constants are 'random.' Their results are reported in the Summer 2001 issue of Experimental Mathematics. |
24 July 2001 |
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Researchers in the laboratory of Alexander Pines, a member of the Materials Sciences Division of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a professor of chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley, have recovered high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy data from experimental samples in a grossly nonuniform field. |
06 July 2001 |
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new high-performance, energy-efficient table lamp that is designed to save energy in homes and offices while greatly increasing lighting quality and visibility. |
06 March 2001 |
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have developed a new high-performance, energy-efficient table lamp that is designed to save energy in homes and offices while greatly increasing lighting quality and visibility. |
06 March 2001 |
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To the small list of genes that play a role in the development of breast cancer can now be added the name ZNF217. Multiple copies of this gene were found to remove natural restrictions on cell growth and thereby increase the chances for malignancy in a study jointly conducted by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at San Francisco. |
03 March 2001 |
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To the small list of genes that play a role in the development of breast cancer can now be added the name ZNF217. Multiple copies of this gene were found to remove natural restrictions on cell growth and thereby increase the chances for malignancy in a study jointly conducted by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at San Francisco. |
03 March 2001 |
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In the spring of 2001, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will catch nearby supernovae in the act of exploding at prescheduled times, the targets to be supplied 'on demand' for the first time. Spectra from these nearby supernovae will be used to calibrate measurements of the accelerating expansion of the universe. |
10 January 2001 |
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A new three-year public-private research initiative, which will target substantial reductions in the $100 billion spent annually in energy costs for commercial buildings, has been launched under the leadership of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
More than $13 million in research funding has been committed by the California Energy Commission, the DOE, private sector partners and Pacific Gas & Electric. |
24 August 2000 |
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A new three-year public-private research initiative, which will target substantial reductions in the $100 billion spent annually in energy costs for commercial buildings, has been launched under the leadership of scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
More than $13 million in research funding has been committed by the California Energy Commission, the DOE, private sector partners and Pacific Gas & Electric. |
24 August 2000 |
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For the first time, researchers have made direct images of the alignment of magnetic domains on both sides of an interface between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic films, an example of 'pinning' in the kind of layered magnetic structure vital to today's advanced computer recording heads and to the memory devices of the future. Their accomplishment is reported in the June 15, 2000, issue of the journal Nature. |
14 June 2000 |
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For the first time, researchers have made direct images of the alignment of magnetic domains on both sides of an interface between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic films, an example of 'pinning' in the kind of layered magnetic structure vital to today's advanced computer recording heads and to the memory devices of the future. Their accomplishment is reported in the June 15, 2000, issue of the journal Nature. |
14 June 2000 |
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Scientists at Berkeley have reported the first direct observations of what happens when the message of a gene is being read during the actual transcription of single DNA molecules. Using a unique experimental setup they designed themselves, the researchers followed transcription by single molecules of RNA polymerase, the enzyme responsible for reading the genetic message in humans and other higher organisms as well as bacteria. Their observations provide new insights into how genetic expression in cells may be regulated. |
03 April 2000 |
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The U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory today announced that the first phase of its new IBM RS/6000 SP system has met a demanding set of performance benchmarks and is now ready for full use by researchers across the nation. |
28 March 2000 |
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In 90 years of study, the diminutive fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has yielded many of the most fundamental discoveries in genetics, beginning with proof, in 1916, that the genes are located on the chromosomes. Only during the last year has the fly's whole genome been sequenced, however, and its 13,601 individual genes enumerated. |
23 March 2000 |
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No, the 'Staudinger ligation' isn't the latest Robert Ludlum thriller; it's a new chemical reaction in a growing arsenal of cell engineering techniques developed by Carolyn Bertozzi of the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, a pioneer in modifying the surfaces of living cells. |
16 March 2000 |
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Size matters a lot in the world of electronics and will matter even more in the upcoming age of nanotechnology where devices may be a thousand times smaller than the microchips of today. But shape matters too. To date, experimental nanocrystals fashioned from semiconductors have all been shaped like dots or spheres. No longer. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have learned to make semiconductor nanocrystals that are shaped like rods. |
06 March 2000 |
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