Dan Fletcher (UC Berkeley) working on Coronavirus test using RNA detection

by jowilliams | Apr 15, 2020 | Covid-19 Related Work

Dan Fletcher is working with Melanie Ott (Gladstone/UCSF) on the development of a Coronavirus point-of-care Cas13-based assay for direct viral RNA detection. The device is built around Fletcher’s CellScope-based fluorescence microscopy system and is designed to...

Wendell Lim featured in UCSF Magazine, Synthetic Cells to Start-up

by jowilliams | Apr 15, 2020 | Press

Read “Startup Science: How the Idea for Synthetic Cells Took Silicon Valley By Storm” by Dan Frost, a featured article on Wendell Lim’s work. UCSF...

Marshall lab is modeling how coronavirus interacts with the host cell defense systems

by jowilliams | Apr 14, 2020 | Covid-19 Related Work

The Marshall lab is modeling how the novel coronavirus interacts with the host cell defense systems.

Hana El-Samad and Manu Prakash are part of a team working on N95 mask decontamination

by jowilliams | Apr 13, 2020 | Covid-19 Related Work

Shortages of personal protective equipment (PPE), including medical N95 masks, are forcing hospitals, care centers, and first responders across the country to, in some cases, reuse their limited supply of these critical resources during this unprecedented COVID-19...

Prakash (Stanford) assembling COVID-19 PPE from snorkel masks

by jowilliams | Apr 10, 2020 | Covid-19 Related Work

Read about the work in Manu Prakash’s lab to develop personal protective equipment from diving gear and plumbing supplies here. In addition to the snorkel mask PPE, his lab is helping develop a machine that can take waste styrofoam and quickly spin it, like...