At a special meeting on Monday, the Berkeley Academic Senate voted 336 to 34 in favor of four resolutions ranging from a call for special training for campus police to a condemnation of "the UC Berkeley administration's authorization of violent responses to nonviolent protests over the past two years."
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Led by UC Berkeley synthetic biologist Jay Keasling, scientists at the Joint BioEnergy Institute have engineered strains of E. coli bacteria that can digest switchgrass and synthesize its sugars into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, a milestone on the road to developing advanced renewable alternatives to fossil fuels.
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They say time heals all wounds, and new research indicates that time spent in dream sleep can help. UC Berkeley researchers have found that during the dream phase of sleep, REM sleep, our stress chemistry shuts down and the brain processes emotional experiences and takes the painful edge off difficult memories.
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