Month: March 2013
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DNA study clarifies relationship between polar bears and brown bears
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office At the end of the last ice age, a population of polar bears was stranded by the receding ice on a few islands in southeastern Alaska. Male brown bears swam across to the islands from the Alaskan mainland and mated with female polar bears, eventually transforming the polar…
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UCSC Cancer Genomics Hub wins 2013 Innovations in Networking award
By Janis Cortese (CENIC) The UC Santa Cruz Cancer Genomics Hub (CGHub) has been honored by the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC) as the recipient of the 2013 Innovations in Networking Award for High-Performance Research Applications. UCSC has built CGHub, a 5-petabyte database, to store tumor genomes sequenced through National Cancer Institute (NCI) projects. Through this…