Month: April 2024
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UC Santa Cruz researchers’ tool creates ‘synthetic’ images of cells for enhanced microscopy analysis
“We are generating synthetic images that can also be turned into a time lapse movie, where we can generate the unseen future of cells… With that, we want to see if we are able to predict the future states of a cell, like if the cell is going to grow, migrate, differentiate or divide.”
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David Haussler receives Lifetime Achievement Award, Holger Schmidt awarded Innovator of the Year
UCSC Genomics Institute Scientific Director David Haussler received a lifetime achievement award from UCSC for his ongoing innovative, interdisciplinary work in genomics, and his collaborations and mentoring to advance the field.
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Colossal pledges $600K to the UCSC Genomics Institute to support paleogenomics
Colossal, a company that seeks to bring the mammoth and dodo bird back from extinction, is expanding its support for ancient DNA academic collaborations by pledging a gift of $500K to the UCSC Genomics Institute.
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Genomics on the ground level
Russ Corbett-Detig and Erik Enbody at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution in Ferria, Italy, 2023. April 15, 2024 By Krizia Chambers One of the biggest current challenges in genomics research is figuring out how to make vast amounts of genomic data available to the people who need it. At the UC Santa Cruz…
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New diagnostic tool achieves accuracy of PCR tests with faster and simpler nanopore system
New tool combines optofluidics and nanopores to rapidly test for COVID-19 and Zika virus April 15, 2024 By Emily Cerf Over the past four years, many of us have become accustomed to a swab up the nose to test for COVID-19, using at-home rapid antigen tests or the more accurate clinic-provided PCR tests with a longer…
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Surprising new finding about telomeres could lead to potential targets for preventing degenerative disease
In a “jaw-dropping” finding published in Science last week, Carol Greider and her collaborators at UC Santa Cruz and Johns Hopkins Medicine used nanopore sequencing to demonstrate that certain chromosomes have telomere lengths that are consistently longer or shorter than others. Telomere length plays a role in longevity and cancer.