Month: March 2022
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First complete, gapless sequence of a human genome reveals hidden regions
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Book club – Life as We Made It by Beth Shapiro
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”]Monserrat Garduño-Castro, Nick Norman, Rebecca Trager | Chemistry World | Nov. 10, 2021 This episode is for anybody interested in how human beings have altered the world around us since we came on the scene tens of thousands of years ago. University of California Santa Cruz evolutionary biologist Beth…
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UCSC contributes to Guinness World Record for fastest sequencing
Isha Salian | NVIDIA | February 18, 2022 Guinness World Records this week presented a Stanford University-led research team with the first record for fastest DNA sequencing technique — a benchmark set using a workflow sped up by AI and accelerated computing. Achieved in five hours and two minutes, the DNA sequencing record can allow…