Month: January 2022
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UCSC team scores gold for second straight year at iGEM synthetic biology competition
December 03, 2021 | Melissa Weckerle | UCSC For the second year in a row, a team of UC Santa Cruz undergraduates won a gold medal at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Jamboree. The annual competition brings together student teams from around the world to present synthetic biology projects that aim to address pressing global…
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A new way to find genetic variations removes bias from human genotyping
Previous genomic research has used a single reference genome, but now researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed an effective new tool for mapping genetic variants to better represent human diversity in sequencing data.
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UCSC signs $3M state contract to deliver a public health data platform for pathogen genomics
One-year, $3 million contract with the California Department of Public Health will galvanize pandemic-related genomic data analysis efforts for the public good Under an agreement with the California Department of Public Health, UCSC will develop a platform to overlay genomic data with public health information. September 2, 2021 | Alexis Morgan | UCSC UC Santa…
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NIH funds Center for Live Cell Genomics at UC Santa Cruz
September 27, 2021 | Tim Stephens | UCSC A new Center for Live Cell Genomics, funded by a five-year, $13.5-million grant from the National Institutes of Health, will bring together researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute to develop new methods and experimental platforms for biomedical research using live cells and tissues. The center will deploy…