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2008 News Releases

• Surprising Graphene
  Honing in on graphene electronics with infrared synchrotron radiation (6/9/08)
• New Study Sheds Light on the Growing U.S. Wind Power Market (6/2/08)
• The Structure of XPD Sheds Light on Cancer and Aging
  The role of a unique DNA-repair protein in multiple diseases (5/29/08)
• New Clues to How Proteins Dissolve and Crystallize
  Fresh evidence for the "Law of Matching Water Affinities" (5/12/08)
• Berkeley Researchers Identify Photosynthetic Dimmer Switch (5/8/08)
• Warming up for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  Higher temperatures yield tunable, supersensitive Hyper-CEST MRI (5/6/08)
• Berkeley Lab Researchers Propose a New Breed of Supercomputers for Improving Global Climate Predictions (5/5/08)
• Berkeley Lab Astrophysicist and Nobel Laureate George Smoot Elected to National Academy of Sciences (5/1/08)
• On the Energy Trail: Berkeley Researchers Find New Details Following the Path of Solar Energy During Photosynthesis (4/25/08)
• Berkeley Lab Names Paul Alivisatos as Deputy Director (4/11/08)
• Berkeley Lab Examines State-level Renewables Portfolio Standards Policies (4/10/08)
• Energy Secretary’s Excellence Award to Molecular Foundry Project Management Team (3/27/08)
• How Iron Gets into the North Pacific
  Is the Dust-Storm Theory Overblown? (3/19/08)
• A Protein that Triggers Aggressive Breast Cancer (3/12/08)
• Berkeley Lab's Vern Paxson Honored for Research Characterizing the Internet (2/21/08)
• Irregular Exercise Pattern May Add Pounds (2/1/08)
• Berkeley Scientists Bring MRI/NMR to Microreactors (1/28/08)
• Berkeley Lab Scientists Find Evidence of Link Between Outdoor Ozone and Building-Related Health Symptoms (1/23/08)
• Debut of TEAM 0.5, the World's Best Microscope (1/22/08)
• DOE Allocates NERSC Supercomputing Resources to Research Combustion, Climate Change, Energy, Accelerators (1/18/08)
• Feeling the Heat: Berkeley Researchers Make Thermoelectric Breakthrough in Silicon Nanowires (1/9/08)
• Smaller is Stronger — Now Scientists Know Why (1/2/08)

2007 News Releases

• First Look at an Enzyme Target for Antibacterial and Cancer Drugs (12/19/07)
• Helium Isotopes Point to New Sources of Geothermal Energy (11/29/07)
• ESnet, Internet2 Complete Coast-to-Coast Next-Generation Network In Support of DOE Scientific Community (11/15/07)
• Energy Biosciences Institute Begins Ground-Breaking Research Into New, Cleaner Sources of Energy (11/14/07)
• The World's Smallest Double Slit Experiment: Breaking up the Hydrogen Molecule (11/8/07)
• National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center Announces Acceptance of one of World's Largest Supercomputers (11/1/07)
• Berkeley Lab’s Pennacchio Wins Presidential Early Career Award (11/1/07)
• Make Way for the Real Nanopod: Berkeley Researchers Create First Fully Functional Nanotube Radio (10/31/07)
• Prof. Kathy Yelick Named New Director for DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (10/29/07)
• Going Live With Click Chemistry: Berkeley Researchers Create a Copper-free Version of the Technique (10/25/07)
• Department of Energy’s Joint BioEnergy Institute Gets New Home: EmeryStation East to Host Biofuels Research Center (10/22/07)
• Berkeley Lab Scientists Contribute to Climate Change Studies that win the Nobel Peace Prize (10/12/07)
• Molecular Foundry Receives LEED Gold Certification (10/5/07)
• Innovator Award to Berkeley Lab's Joe Gray for Improved Breast Cancer Screening (10/1/07)
• Bay Area’s Joint BioEnergy Institute Gets Financial Kick-Start from DOE (9/28/07)
• Good Vibrations: Using Terahertz Radiation to Control Material Properties (9/28/07)
• ‘Science at the Theatre,’ Part 2: Reducing Our Carbon Footprint (9/13/07)
• Joint Dark Energy Mission a Top Priority for NASA, Says NRC (9/5/07)
• Ultraconserved Elements in the Genome: Are They Indispensable? (9/4/07)
• Where Broken DNA is Repaired (8/6/07)
• Berkeley Lab’s Ultraclean Combustion Technology For Electricity Generation Fires Up in Hydrogen Tests (8/1/07)
• Berkeley Researchers Find New Way To Fabricate Striped Nanorods (7/19/07)
• Gruber Cosmology Prize Awarded to Discoverers of Dark Energy (7/16/07)
• Homestake Strikes Gold Again
  NSF Selects Former South Dakota Gold Mine as Deep Underground Science Site (7/10/07)
• Berkeley Lab Wins Three Prestigious 2007 R&D 100 Awards for Technology Advances (7/5/07)
• Bright Future for Nano-sized Light Source (6/28/07)
• Bay Area Partnership to Host DOE Bioscience Center (6/26/07)
• Exploring the Dark Matter of the Genome
  Sequencing Unravels Secrets in the Complex Heterochromatin of the Fruit Fly (6/14/07)
• In Nature, Proteins Sweep up Nanoparticles (6/14/07)
• Gabor Somorjai Wins Priestley Award (6/7/07)
• Berkeley Lab, EPA Studies Confirm Large Public Health And Economic Impact of Dampness and Mold: They estimate that number of asthma cases attributable to exposure in home is 4.6 million, at $3.5 billion annual cost (5/24/07)
• Berkeley Lab Life Sciences Awarded NIH Grants for Fruit Fly, Nematode Studies (5/14/07)
• ‘Greening the Capitol’ Gets Technical Assistance from Berkeley Lab (5/9/07)
• Vigorous Exercise Keeps People Thin with Age (5/3/07)
• Lab-on-a-Chip Device from Berkeley Lab to Speed Proteomics Research (5/2/07)
• Berkeley Lab Deputy Director Elected to National Academy Sciences (5/2/07)
• Quantum Secrets of Photosynthesis Revealed (4/12/07)
• Berkeley Lab Researchers Are Developing Energy-Efficient Digital Network Technology (3/26/07)
• THEMIS Weighs In On The Northern Lights
  Berkeley Lab Detectors Gather Data on Earth's Auroras, Radiation Belts, and the Solar Wind (3/14/07)
• Four Berkeley Lab Award Winners Launch ‘Science at the Theatre’ (2/28/07)
• Shedding New Light on Proteorhodopsin (2/9/07)
• Paul Alivisatos Wins E.O. Lawrence Award (2/7/07)
• BP selects Berkeley to lead $500 million Energy Research Institute (2/1/07)
• Berkeley Lab Study Important Step to Improving Monitoring of Western Electricity Markets
  Econometric methods show promise for market monitoring screening in the absence of organized ISO markets (1/29/07)
• A Boost for Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research (1/25/07)
• Berkeley Lab Issues Long Range Development Plan (1/23/07)
• A New Target for the Treatment of Breast Cancer: Berkeley Scientists Find A Potential New Way for Stopping Tumor Proliferation (1/11/07)

2006 News Releases

• To Catch an Intermediate
  Berkeley Scientists Find New Way to Trap and Hold Intermediate Compounds in Water (12/20/06)
• A Surprise Award to George Smoot: the Daniel Chalonge Medal (12/19/06)
• Study Finds the Air Rich with Bacteria (12/18/06)
• Regulating the Nuclear Architecture of the Cell (12/11/06)
• New Clues to How Sex Evolves (12/4/06)
• Berkeley Lab Earth Sciences Leader Dies (11/30/06)
• Neanderthal Genome Sequencing Yields Surprising Results and Opens a New Door to Future Studies (11/15/06)
• Learning How Nature Splits Water (11/3/06)
• Neuron Cell Stickiness May Hold Key to Evolution of the Human Brain (11/2/06)
• Berkeley Lab Gets $13 Million in Grants from HHMI and NIH to Speed Crystal Structure Solutions (10/23/06)
• HYPER-CEST MRI Breaks New Ground in Molecular Imaging (10/19/06)
• Berkeley Cancer Genome Center to Study Tumor Genomics (10/16/06)
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Opens the National Center for X-ray Tomography (10/13/06)
• Tissue Geometry Plays Crucial Role in Breast Cell Invasion (10/12/06)
• A Ruler of Gold and DNA
  New tool could expedite scientists’ push to learn how genetic information is processed (10/11/06)
• Nanocrystals Are Hot
  Germanium Nanocrystals Embedded in Glass: They're Hotter Before They Melt and Colder Before They Freeze (10/9/06)
• Berkeley Lab Physicist George Smoot Wins 2006 Nobel Prize (10/3/06)
• Silver Anomalies Found in Jerusalem Pottery Hint at Wealth During Second Temple Period
  Joint Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory-Bar-Ilan University Research Team Uses Advanced Neutron and X-Ray Techniques to Examine Artifacts (9/27/06)
• Berkeley Lab Life Scientists are Leaders in Team to Detect Cancer by Studying Proteins in the Blood
  National Cancer Institute Announces Grants for Studying Clinical Proteomic Assessment for Cancer (9/27/06)
• From Zero to a Billion Electron Volts in 3.3 Centimeters Highest Energies Yet From Laser Wakefield Acceleration (9/25/06)
• NIH Funds Berkeley Lab Research on Defense Against Radiological Attack (9/19/06)
• The Weirdest Type Ia Supernova Yet Supernova Legacy Survey Finds a Superbright, Supermassive Type Ia Supernova in a Young Galaxy (9/20/06)
• Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to Lead Five Projects, Partner in Eight Others under DOE’s Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Program (9/8/06)
• MRI On the Cheap and On the Go (9/5/06)
• ESnet and Internet2 Partner To Deploy Next Generation Network for Scientific Research and Discovery (8/31/06)
• In Memoriam: Neville Smith, Advanced Light Source Scientific Director (8/21/06)
• Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Team Wins Gruber Prize (8/15/06)
• Berkeley Lab Names New Director for Advanced Light Source (8/14/06)
• A New Window into the Deformation of Nanoscale Materials (8/14/06)
• SNAP Wins NASA Support for Joint Dark Energy Mission (8/9/06)
• Surprise Finding For Stretched DNA (8/7/06)
• Feltrinelli International Prize Awarded to Berkeley Lab's Saul Perlmutter (7/26/06)
• Quantum Dots Pose Minimal Impact to Cells (7/18/06)
• Molecular DNA Switch Found to be the Same for All Life (7/17/06)
• First Direct Observations of Spinons and Holons (7/13/06)
• Berkeley Lab Wins Four Prestigious 2006 R&D 100 Awards for Technology Advances (7/5/06)
• Life Cycle of Operons Yields New Look at Bacterial Genetics (7/3/06)
• Curtain May be Closing on Scientific Water Controversy (6/26/06)
• Online Fitness Tool Takes People on a Journey Across America (6/23/06)
• Berkeley Lab's Saul Perlmutter wins Shaw Prize in Astronomy (6/21/06)
• Energy-Efficient Direct-Current-Powering Technology Reduces Energy Use in Data Centers By Up to 20 Percent (6/21/06)
• Some Genetic Research is Best Done Close to the Evolutionary Home (6/12/06)
• Feedback Loops in Global Climate Change Point to a Very Hot 21^st Century (5/22/06)
• A Ruler to Measure the Universe
  "Lighthouses in the Sky" Yield Biggest-Ever 3-D Map of the Cosmos (5/15/06)
• Berkeley's Art Rosenfeld Wins Fermi Award (4/27/06)
• Three Berkeley Lab Scientists Elected To National Academy of Sciences (4/25/06)
• Revealing the Secrets of WRN
  The Unique Protein Responsible for Werner's Syndrome Aids Research in Cancer and Aging (4/24/06)
• Berkeley Lab Gets NIH Grant for Second Generation of Automounter Robots (4/19/06)
• Cell Surface Profiling Technique Could Yield Cancer Blood Test (4/12/06)
• Berkeley Lab Dedicates the Molecular Foundry (3/29/06)
• Berkeley Scientific Great Owen Chamberlain Has Died (3/1/06)
• Nanoscale Tubing Assembles Itself Instantly (2/27/06)
• At Berkeley: Intelligently Designed Molecular Evolution (2/23/06)
• Bechtel Gift Assists Berkeley Lab Education Outreach (2/9/06)
• Berkeley Researchers Lay Groundwork for Cell Version of DNA Chip:
  New Technique Developed for Attaching Biological Cells to Non-Biological Surfaces (2/6/06)
• Secrets of the Sea Yield Stronger Artificial Bone (1/31/06)
• Berkeley Scientists Get First Detailed Look at Dicer (1/12/06)

2005 News Releases

• A Theoretical Breakthrough Inspired by Experiment
  Calculating Electron Correlations in the Hydrogen Molecule (12/15/05)
• Learning About Sex From an Elegant Worm (12/15/05)
• Prelude to an Earthquake?
  Berkeley Lab Scientist Studies Possible Precursors in Micro-quakes (12/8/05)
• New Insights Into Protein Synthesis and Hepatitis C Infections (12/2/05)
• Picking Particles Faster Than One at a Time
  A New Algorithm Automatically and Dependably Selects Images of Molecules for "Crystallization in Silico" (12/1/05)
• Scientists Create a New Way to Study T Cell Signaling (11/17/05)
• Berkeley and Sandia Labs Develop Airport Protection Guidelines (11/10/05)
• Discovering the First Steps in Transcription-Coupled Repair
  An Important DNA Repair Mechanism Linked to Premature Aging Yields its Secrets (10/31/05)
• Draft Environmental Impact Report Issued
  For Demolition of Bevatron at Berkeley Lab (10/21/05)
• Sunny Future for Nanocrystal Solar Cells
  Berkeley Scientists Synthesize Cheap, Easy-to-Make Ultra-thin Photovoltaic Films (10/20/05)
• NMR Technology Comes to the Lab on a Chip
  Remote Detection Makes NMR Compatible with Microfluidics (10/10/05)
• Two Berkeley Lab Scientists Win DOE Distinguished Scientist Fellowships (10/7/05)
• Berkeley Lab Technology Could Help Areas Flooded by Katrina and Rita
  DNA ‘Phylochip’ Scans for Thousands of Disease-Causing Microbes (9/27/05)
• Supernova Explosion May Have Caused Mammoth Extinction (9/23/05)
• More Intense Heat Waves Could Slam California’s Energy Grid (9/19/05)
• Closing In On Quantum Chemistry (9/8/05)
• Finding a Way to Test for Dark Energy (8/29/05)
• Of Friction and "The Da Vinci Code" (8/25/05)
• Berkeley Lab Scientist Sees Risk to Insurance Industry From Climate Change (8/11/05)
• Harnessing Wind Energy in Eritrea
  Berkeley Lab scientists help African nation pursue alternative energy sources (8/10/05)
• LBNL’s Biological Data Management and Technology Center Joins California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research
  QB3 and LBNL Establish Joint Biological Data Management Core (8/9/05)
• Groundbreaking Combustion Research by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Featured on Cover of Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (7/28/05)
• First Measurement of Geoneutrinos at KamLAND (7/27/05)
• A Gold Mine for Science (7/26/05)
• Bad Cholesterol: Genes Make the Difference (7/8/05)
• Berkeley Lab Wins Three Prestigious R&D 100 Awards for Technology Advances (7/7/05)
• Cancer Comes Full Circle
  Discovering the pathways by which the same factors that disrupt the structure of breast tissue cause cancers to develop (7/6/05)
• A Sharper Focus for Soft x-rays
  Zone Plate Lenses Capable of Better than 15-Nanometer Resolution (6/29/05)
• Department of Energy Dramatically Increases Bandwidth to Support Scientific Research Throughout the San Francisco Bay Region (6/24/05)
• The Making and Breaking of Microtubules
  How a Nucleotide Controls the Flexibility of Tubulin (6/22/05)
• The Strange Electronics of Quantum Dots (6/15/05)
• Berkeley Lab Scientist Proposes Solution to Reduce Developing World’s Expensive, Polluting Fuel-Based Lighting (5/27/05)
• Energy-Saving Paper Sensor Passes Major Milestone (5/23/05)
• A Few Steps Closer to Nanoscale Photonic Technology (5/20/05)
• Berkeley Lab Technology Dramatically Speeds Up Searches of Large Databases (5/16/05)
• Finding an Alzheimer's Switch
  An Unsuspected Protein Regulates the Production of Plaque-Forming Peptides (5/12/05)
• Berkeley Lab’s BEST Winery Tool Helps Reduce Energy and Water Costs
  Three California wine-country workshops in May will introduce the tool to winery facilities managers (5/3/05)
• Portable High-Resolution NMR Sensor Unveiled (4/8/05)
• Follow the Energy: New Technique Enables Scientists to Track Molecular Energy Transfer in Photosynthesis (3/31/05)
• Nano-Probes Allow an Inside Look at Cell Nuclei (3/18/05)
• Fossil Records Show Biodiversity Comes and Goes (3/11/05)
• Potter Street: A New Address for the Biosciences (3/4/05)
• Plutonium Decontamination Agent Characterized at Berkeley Advanced Light Source (3/3/05)
• Director Announces New Berkeley Lab Senior Management Team (2/23/05)
• New Neutrino Telescope for South Pole (2/15/05)
• Berkeley Lab Study Estimates $80 Billion Annual Cost of Power Interruptions (2/2/05)
• Key Mechanism in Genetic Inheritance During Cell Division Identified (2/1/05)
• Spectroscopy for the Real World (1/31/05)
• Water Filter Could Help Millions of Bangladeshis (1/21/05)
• Key Molecule in Plant Photo-Protection Identified (1/20/05)

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