Month: October 2016
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UCSC goes bald to back childhood cancer research
By Jondi Gumz, Santa Cruz Sentinel Aurora Learned, 4, shared her mom’s lap with her younger brother Friday afternoon, watching as barbers gave her grandfather and her mom a bald new look. Afterward, the blonde tyke posed with her mom in the courtyard of UC Santa Cruz Engineering Building 2 as her dad looked on…
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De-extinction – Beth Shapiro
Beth Shapiro talks with RadioLive in New Zealand about de-extinction. Listen to the interview
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Studying Isoform-Specific mRNA Recruitment to Polyribosomes with Frac-seq.
Abstract: Gene expression profiling is widely used as a measure of the protein output of cells. However, it is becoming more evident that there are multiple layers of post-transcriptional gene regulation that greatly impact protein output (Battle et al., Science 347:664-667, 2014; Khan et al., Science 342:1100-1104, 2013; Vogel et al., Mol Syst Biol 6:400,…
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How to Clone a Mammoth (Or Should We?)
By Heather Goldstone & Elsa Partan Many scientists think we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction, and it’s our fault. The idea of bringing back extinct animals has gotten more attention in recent years as labs around the world get better at sequencing their genes. Could we once again have herds of…
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Local group funds four UC Santa Cruz cancer researchers
The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group (SCCBG), a local charity supporting cancer research and patient care, has awarded grants of $12,500 each to four researchers at UC Santa Cruz: Angela Brooks, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering; Melissa Jurica, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology; Carrie Partch, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry; and Seth…