Month: December 2021
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Biologist Upasna Sharma wins $1.18 million grant from Templeton Foundation
New funding will advance Sharma’s research to understand how the effects of environmental stresses can be transmitted from one generation to the next November 03, 2021 | Tim Stephens | UCSC Upasna Sharma, assistant professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, has received a $1.18 million grant from the John Templeton…
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Pangenomics enables genotyping of known structural variants in 5202 diverse genomes
Sirén, Jouni, et al. “Pangenomics Enables Genotyping of Known Structural Variants in 5202 Diverse Genomes.” Science, vol. 374, no. 6574, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg8871.
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The benchmark for human diversity is based on one man’s genome. A new tool could change that.
Instead of looking at one single genome, researchers are mapping out “a network of possibilities.” Phlip Kiefer | Dec. 16, 2021 | Popular Science When scientists want to understand how individual human genomes vary, they turn to a single, central genetic sequence: the reference genome. That genome serves as a kind of standardized measurement, a…