QB3's Reg Kelly will help campuses identify ways to more efficiently morph research into products, as well as help UC officials develop a venture fund of up to $250 million.

Keychain-sized gadget, devised by several UC Berkeley students, lets you constantly track exposure to air pollution via a smartphone app. But it’s also a way of crowdsourcing much broader studies on air quality.

Caribou Biosciences of Berkeley was co-founded by Jennifer Doudna and other scientists who have shaped the gene-editing technology known as Crispr-Cas9.