#  CCB's top stories from 2018 

 





December 21, 2018

 

 

- [ News ](/news-categories/news)
 
 

 

####  Accolades, innovations, and world-firsts

 Often, small successes—even major accomplishments—stay hidden in the Lab. So, when we root out these diamond-like innovations, we try to spread the news to you, our audience. Based on skyrocketing pageviews, you seem to like it.

 Now, as the year comes to an end, we share some of CCB's most-read, best-loved stories from 2018.

##  [Life has a new ingredient](https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/life-has-new-ingredient)

 The Szostak Lab discovers that inosine could be a potential route to the first RNA and the origin of life on Earth

   ![An artist's rendition of early Earth](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/chemistry/files/early_earth_don_dixon.jpg?itok=pUBjH4D1) 

 

##  [Introducing the "Future of Biochemistry," Christina Woo](https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/introducing-%E2%80%9Cfuture-biochemistry%E2%80%9D-christina-woo)

 The American Chemical Society's Biochemistry journal featured Christina Woo in their month-long special edition, the "44 Faces of the Future of Biochemistry."

##  [How to build one molecule from two lonely atoms](https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/how-build-one-molecule-two-lonely-atoms)

 The Ni Lab's revolutionary process could help realize the first quantum computer

   ![A laser-cooled cloud of a million sodium atoms suspended inside a glass cell vacuum apparatus](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/chemistry/files/combined_bw_blur.jpg?itok=5rlTj1c9) 

 

##  [New CRISPR innovations record cellular history and edit with unparalleled precision](https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/new-camera-cells)

 The Liu Lab presents two new CRISPR tools: CAMERA and xCas9

##  [Intellectual, innovator, and educator](https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/intellectual-innovator-and-educator)

 The University of Chicago awards Charles M. Lieber the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science

##  [A new approach to kill superbugs](https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/new-approach-kill-superbugs)

 The Kahne Lab discovers how Gram-negative bacteria build resistance to antibiotics

   ![Gram-negative Bacterium Diagram](/sites/g/files/omnuum7776/files/styles/hwp_1_1__720x720_scale/public/chemistry/files/gram-negative_bacterium_diagram.jpg?itok=oJcSR3yH) 

 

##  [CCB's Gregg Tucci is a Harvard Hero](https://chemistry.harvard.edu/news/gregg-tucci-harvard-hero)

 Harvard's highest form of staff recognition, honors the University's unspoken heroes



 

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Lieber ](/news-and-events-faculty/lieber)
- [ Woo ](/news-and-events-faculty/woo)
- [ Szostak ](/news-and-events-faculty/szostak)
- [ David Liu ](/news-and-events-faculty/liu)
- [ Kahne ](/news-and-events-faculty/kahne)
- [ Ni ](/news-and-events-faculty/ni)
- [ Faculty ](/news-event-type/faculty)
- [ Prizes & Awards ](/news-type/prizes-awards)
- [ Research ](/news-event-type/research)
- [ Graduate ](/news-event-type/graduate)
- [ Staff ](/news-event-type/staff)
 
 

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