Month: October 2024
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Engineers awarded CDC contract to build pathogen-tracing public health tools
To be better prepared for public health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic, UC Santa Cruz Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Russ Corbett-Detig and his lab are building online tools to track the ongoing genomic evolution of pathogens.
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RMI Spotlight: Diana Reyna
The RMI Spotlight series features our current and former students involved with the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute’s Research Mentoring Internship (RMI) Program, this week, we are catching up with former RMI student Diana Reyna as she discusses how RMI has impacted her research interests.
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Reducing Education Inequalities in Latinx Communities Through Cloud-Enabled Project-Based Learning
Funded by CITRIS, a new project out of the Genomics Institute’s Discovery Lab will develop culturally relevant, technologically enhanced STEM education tailored to diverse Latinx populations in the U.S. and Latin America.
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New Breakthrough in Bringing Back the Tasmanian Tiger from Extinction
Australia’s thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, has been extinct for decades, but Colossal Biosciences has made a breakthrough in bringing it back, thanks to the efforts of the UCSC Paleogenomics Lab.
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Genomics Institute provides seed funds for six multidisciplinary projects
The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute has awarded grants of up to $50,000 to six multidisciplinary research projects in the inaugural year of its seed funding program. These projects address human disease, species conservation, tool development, and more.
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Powerful new analyses improve breast cancer risk assessment on a massive scale
Imagine that you have a history of breast cancer in your family, and you want a better idea of what your personal risk is. You consult your physician, and they recommend that you test to see if you have a genetic variant that would increase your chances of developing breast cancer.