UC Berkeley will receive 85% of the auction price, while 15% will go to Foundation, an Ethereum platform. But the NFT will keep on giving: Cal will receive 10% of the proceeds of any subsequent sale of the NFT.
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UC Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna wins 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Doudna, the first woman at Cal to win the Nobel, shares the prize with colleague Emmanuelle Charpentier for developing the genome editing breakthrough CRISPR-Cas9.
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UC Berkeley’s Reinhard Genzel awarded Nobel Prize in physics
Genzel, a professor emeritus of physics and astronomy, shares the prize with UCLA’s Andrea Ghez for “the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy.”
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UC Berkeley launches trial of saliva test for COVID-19
Scientists from the Innovative Genomics Institute, the same UC Berkeley group that created a COVID-19 testing lab in March, are now trialing a quicker way to obtain patient samples: through saliva.
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UC Berkeley scientists are brewing hoppy beers… without the hops
In a double-blind taste test, Lagunitas Brewing employees said the engineered beers had big hops flavors.