Month: November 2024
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UC Santa Cruz, Monterey Bay Aquarium lead collaboration on kelp conservation
How can California’s kelp forests, which have faced dramatic declines due to climate change, persist and thrive in the future? The stakes could not be higher. Giant kelp, the foundation of coastal ecosystems from Mexico to Alaska and across the globe, is one of the most productive plants on Earth. These underwater forests act as…
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World’s most highly cited researchers includes 16 members of the UCSC Genomics Institute
In a notable recognition of scholarly achievement, 24 scientists and engineers from UC Santa Cruz have earned a spot on the 2024 Highly Cited Researchers list, recently unveiled by Clarivate. Six UC Santa Cruz researchers have joined the list since 2023, when 18 UCSC researchers were honored. This prestigious list acknowledges researchers globally whose papers rank…
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Dockstore receives a new update to make sharing workflows even more seamless
Dockstore 1.16 new features include AI-based automatic topic sentence generation, automatic DOI generation and discovery, and improved search results Dockstore is a free and open-source registry for sharing analytical tools and workflows in bioinformatics and adjacent fields of study. Over 4,400 workflows are currently being shared on the platform. Examples include workflows to analyze viral…
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How optogenetics can put the brakes on epilepsy seizures
In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. The researchers used brain tissue that had been removed from epilepsy patients as part of their treatment.
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$7.5 million awarded to UC Santa Cruz to support leadership in salmon-recovery science
UC Santa Cruz has received nearly $7.5 million from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) to vault scientific research on imperiled Pacific salmon populations into one of the nation’s most powerful collaborations between the agency and academia to save the vital species.
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Bioluminescent proteins made from scratch enable non-invasive, multi-functional biological imaging
Bioluminescence is the natural chemical process of light creation in some living creatures that makes fireflies flicker and some jellyfish glow. Scientists have long been interested in borrowing the secrets of these animals’ light-producing genes to create similar effects in vertebrates, for a variety of biomedical applications.