2011 RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
Prenatal pesticide exposure tied to lower IQ in children(20 April)
A new UC Berkeley study has found that prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides—widely used on food crops—is related to lower intelligence scores in children. Every tenfold increase in measures of organophosphates detected during a mother's pregnancy corresponded to a 5.5 point drop in overall IQ scores in children at age 7, the researchers found.
Researchers turn Salmonella into anti-viral gene therapy agent
(7 February)
New experiments at the University of California, Berkeley, may one day lead to anti-viral treatments that involve swallowing Salmonella bacteria, effectively using one bug to stop another.