Month: November 2019
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List of most highly cited researchers features 18 UCSC scientists and engineers
A new list of the world’s most highly cited researchers includes 18 scientists and engineers at UC Santa Cruz.
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FrankenCon Descends on Santa Cruz
Whether on page, stage or screen, Frankenstein has proven to be the eternal story, largely because of its brilliant alchemy to be both timeless and timely. It offers themes of universal human experience that art has been wrestling with since antiquity, and of how to grapple with the ethical dimensions of science and technology that…
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Comprehensive study of UCSC-developed RNA reader appears in Nature Methods
Oxford Nanopore Technologies’s palm-sized DNA and RNA sequencer, the MinION, has been used in Africa during the Ebola epidemic, orbited above planet earth in the International Space Station, and can be found analyzing samples in laboratories all over the world.
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Biotech blooms on Santa Cruz’s westside
The Genomics Institute, based out of the Baskin School of Engineering, recently moved from its campus offices to the Westside Research Park at 2300 Delaware Ave. (Photo by Steve Kurtz) The Westside Research Park, the new name for buildings at 2300 Delaware Ave., is home to a growing number of laboratories as well as the…