Daniel and Will’s protein degradation switch is out!

Really nice work by Will and Daniel.

Daniel C Huang, William J Holtz and Michel M Maharbiz, “A genetic bistable switch utilizing nonlinear protein degradation,” Journal of Biological Engineering (2012) 6:9 doi:10.1186/1754-1611-6-9

And there should be more coming from Justin and Will….

more fuel cell interest

Here’s a brief article in the Economist on the fuel cell work with CFD. Sameer felt crummy they didn’t mention us, but ’tis ok.

http://www.economist.com/node/21557718

Nanoratchets… at last. :)

Gabriel’s APL paper is out. (Here’s to seeing the next one soon.)

G. Lavella, R. Morfino, and M. M. Maharbiz, “A synthetic Brownian ratchet architecture for creating tailorable chemomechanical nanomachines,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 013703 (2012); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4732154

Michel named Bakar Fellow

Fun times, check it out:

http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/bakarfellows/2012-2013-fellows

and

http://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/bakarfellows/about

Very much looking forward to making this a reality.