Month: January 2018

By James Gallagher  BBC News  29 January 2018 Scientists have used a device that fits in the palm of the hand to sequence the human genome. They say the feat, detailed in the journal Nature Biotechnology, opens up exciting possibilities for using genetics in routine medicine. It is a far cry from the effort to…

By Kastalia Medrano 1/29/18 Newsweek The most extensive and detailed human genome sequence yet has been assembled using a hand-held device roughly the size of a cell phone. An international team of scientists working at a lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, created a portable nanopore sequencer that not only used DNA fragments…

January 17, 2018 By Jennifer McNulty The sequencing of the human genome in 2000 was heralded as a turning point for humanity—a milestone that would transform medicine and defeat cancer. Today, the longed-for promise of medical benefits endures and the quest for more data continues, but widening global inequality begs the question of how any benefits…

January 9, 2018 Broad Institute releases open-source GATK4 software for genome analysis, optimized for speed and scalability New version of the leading genome analysis toolkit increases analysis scope and includes enhanced machine learning algorithms for greater performance PR Newswire CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 9, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Today the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard is releasing…

Jan 03, 2018 A team from the University of British Columbia and the University of California, Santa Cruz, presents information on genome sequences generated for the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans using the MinION nanopore long read sequencer. With MinION sequencing and de novo assembly, the researchers tackled the genomes of wild type and rearrangement-containing C.…

So why can’t it draw more transfer students? By Teresa Watanabe, LA Times January 3, 2018 UC Santa Cruz sits on an idyllic expanse of redwood groves and rolling meadows. World-class surf is just minutes away. Its researchers were the first to arrange the DNA sequence of the human genome and make it publicly available.…

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A well-preserved horse skull collected more than 86 years ago from a cave near Las Vegas is helping scientists identify a new type of extinct, stilt-legged horse that died out during the last ice age. Scientists are calling it Haringtonhippus francisci after Richard Harington, an accomplished paleontologist who spent his career…