Month: March 2019
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UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute launches brain research project
UCSC engineers and genomics experts are partnering with UCSF neuroscientists to develop new technology for studying human brain evolution and development | February 27, 2019 | By Tim Stephens | The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, in collaboration with neuroscience faculty at UC San Francisco, is launching an ambitious new project to learn how the human brain…
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Data sharing will be a major thrust of Trump’s $500 million childhood cancer plan
| Feb. 27, 2019 , 1:15 PM | Jocelyn Kaiser | President Donald Trump’s proposal in his State of the Union address earlier this month to spend $500 million over 10 years on pediatric cancer research will begin in 2020 with a focus on sharing patients’ data, federal officials say. That plan is getting a mixed…
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Gene Expression Outlier Analysis Aims to ID New Druggable Targets for Pediatric Cancers
Feb 28, 2019 Christie Rizk NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Next-generation sequencing technology as applied to various cancers has led to the discovery of several DNA mutations thought to be responsible in some way for the development or proliferation of those cancers. This, in turn, has led to the development of several treatments targeted at those…
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Sequencing the white shark genome is cool, but for bigger insights we need libraries of genetic data
February 28, 2019 6.40am ESTGavin Naylor The headlines are eye-catching: Scientists have sequenced the genome of white sharks. Or the bamboo lemur, or the golden eagle. But why spend so much time and money figuring out the DNA makeup of different species? I am an evolutionary biologist at the Florida Program for Shark Research. Our research focuses on understanding how modern sharks…