by alexismorgan | May 31, 2018 | News
The Economist | May 31st 2018 How humans got their brains “HOW the human got his brain” is probably the most important “Just So” story that Rudyard Kipling never wrote. Kipling did not ignore people in his quirky take on evolution. Two of his tales describe the...
by alexismorgan | May 31, 2018 | News
New genes arose in human ancestors just before a dramatic increase in brain size and are involved in genetic defects associated with neurological disorders May 31, 2018 | By Tim Stephens A set of three nearly identical genes found only in humans appear to play a...
by alexismorgan | Apr 24, 2018 | Nature News, News
Project Aims to Sequence DNA from All Complex Life on Earth SANTA CRUZ, CA – April 23, 2018 – The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute’s Scientific Director and Biomolecular Engineering Professor David Haussler has joined forces with an international consortium of...
by alexismorgan | Mar 22, 2018 | News
The human genome has never actually been complete. Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, March 21 Fifteen years ago this April, scientists announced that the human genome sequence was complete. I regret to inform you this is not true. If you have been misled, it is because many...
by alexismorgan | Mar 19, 2018 | health news, News, Sequencing
New era exposes obscured gaps in our genetic maps critical to human health SANTA CRUZ, CA – March 19, 2018 – It’s been nearly two decades since a UC Santa Cruz research team announced that they had assembled and posted the first human genome sequence on the internet....
