Month: August 2015
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Seagate gift supports UC Santa Cruz research on genomic data storage
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Researchers in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz are working with industry partner Seagate Technologies on new ways to structure and store massive amounts of genomic data. Seagate has donated data storage devices with a total capacity of 2.5 petabytes to support this effort. “This…
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New managing director brings business and scientific expertise to the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
By Branwyn Wagman The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute has taken on a new managing director, Ravi Jain, to serve alongside scientific director David Haussler and oversee the institute’s strategic planning, business development, and operations, among other responsibilities. Jain comes to UC Santa Cruz after serving as president and CEO of cBio, a software development…
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UC startups invited to compete for chance at $300,000 in award money
By UC Office of the President Startup companies from the University of California are invited to compete for a total of $300,000 in award money during the first primeUC competition, part of President Janet Napolitano’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative, it was announced today (Aug. 4). In what is hoped will be the first of several…
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New method reveals hidden population of regulatory molecules in cells
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office A recently discovered family of small RNA molecules, some of which have been implicated in cancer progression, has just gotten much larger thanks to a new RNA sequencing technique developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz. The technique, described in a paper published August 3 in Nature Methods,…
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California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine funds UC Santa Cruz pediatric cancer project
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office The California Kids Cancer Comparison project led by the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute is one of two demonstration projects selected by the new California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine, a public-private effort launched by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. The initiative is being hosted by UC San…