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September 22, 2009

KGO highlights QB3 cellular engineering work

San Francisco ABC News affiliate KGO TV ran a two-minute news segment on September 22 covering the collaborative work of three UCSF laboratories in the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) at Mission Bay. The piece highlights a breakthrough in engineering mammalian cells to follow external light cues, with potential applications in both cancer- and neurological therapeutics, and quotes UCSF faculty Wendell Lim, PhD, Chris Voigt, PhD, and Orion Weiner, PhD. The research findings were published in the September 13 online edition of the journal Nature.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/health&id=7027550