Month: August 2014
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Undergraduates present work at Summer Research Symposium
By Tim Stevens, UCSC Public Information A diverse crowd of undergraduate researchers gathered in the Engineering Courtyard on Friday, August 15, to present the results of their summer research projects. They included UC Santa Cruz students doing research in a broad range of disciplines, from bioengineering and physics to linguistics and psychology. The event also…
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Cancer study reveals powerful new system for classifying tumors
By Tim Stevens, UCSC Public Information Cancers are classified primarily on the basis of where in the body the disease originates, as in lung cancer or breast cancer. According to a new study, however, one in ten cancer patients would be classified differently using a new classification system based on molecular subtypes instead of the…
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NIH awards $2 million to UCSC group for DNA sequencing research
By Tim Stevens, UCSC Public Information A group led by Mark Akeson, professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, will receive $2.29 million over three years from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to support the team’s work on novel DNA sequencing technology. Akeson leads the UC Santa Cruz nanopore group, which has…
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Edward Schulak Fellowship in Genomics goes to resolving ambiguities in human genomes
A gift to support research in biomolecular engineer David Haussler’s laboratory at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has made possible the Edward Schulak Fellowship in Genomics. The fellowship is to support groundbreaking research in genomics. Schulak, an international business leader, architect, entrepreneur, real estate developer, and inventor said, “Genomics is answering the questions that…