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@qb3-berkeley.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 7:07 PM

New @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social research from the Brar and Ünal labs puts us one step closer to understanding gametogenic rejuvenation.

Lead author Silvan Spiri developed a platform to discover the first factors responsible for making cells “young” again.

Read more: bit.ly/4hpqYPJ

Silvan Spiri stands at a computer monitor, preparing to load gametes into microscopic traps, which are shown on the monitor screen.

@qb3-berkeley.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 9:05 PM

QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Margaux Pinney shares how her interdisciplinary lab uses microfluidics to study enzyme kinetics at scale, opening new frontiers for drug discovery and protein design.

Read our latest interview: qb3.berkeley.edu/news/faculty-focus-on-margaux-pinney/

Group shot of the Margaux Pinney lab members in Stanley Hall.

@qb3-berkeley.bsky.social Sep 17, 2026, 7:57 PM

Protein engineers at UC Berkeley created ProteinGuide—a method using experimental data to steer generative AI models toward better, highly stable & active proteins without expensive model retraining.

Read more about this @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social research: bit.ly/4AlhcFC

Graphic illustrating how ProteinGuide was tested on adenine base editors: In the first round, generative models produced a library of variants that were experimentally tested for editing activity; ProteinGuide then used those results to guide a second round of designs toward higher activity.

Side-by-side headshots of Maria Lukarska (left, a postdoctoral scholar in Professor Dave Savage's lab) and Junhao Xiong (right, a recently graduated PhD student in Professor Jennifer Listgarten’s lab).

@ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Sep 12, 2026, 12:42 AMReposted by @qb3-berkeley.bsky.social

UC Berkeley researchers created a new genomic language AI model, GPN-Star, that far outpaces its competitors at identifying genetic variants that impact human health — while only using a fraction of the computing resources needed to train larger models.
https://bit.ly/4A9xXn8

@qb3-berkeley.bsky.social Aug 31, 2026, 5:05 PM

QB3-Berkeley faculty affiliate Jennifer Doudna helped unlock the power of CRISPR. Today, pioneers like Victoria Gray are living proof of how gene editing moves from lab breakthrough to transformative real-world cure. Read more in Berkeley News