Author: Rose Miyatsu
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UC Santa Cruz receives $400,000 grant for pediatric cancer research
Funds support the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative in improving clinical care and treatment option Elaine Ingalls | Santa Cruz Sentinel | August 16, 2019 SANTA CRUZ — UC Santa Cruz has received $400,000 as one of 55 grants from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation for pediatric cancer research. The foundation announced July 23 that its 55…
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Telomere-to-telomere assembly of a complete human X chromosome
Karen H Miga, Sergey Koren, Arang Rhie, Mitchell R Vollger, Ariel Gershman, Andrey Bzikadze, Shelise Brooks, Edmund Howe, David Porubsky, Glennis A Logsdon, Valerie A Schneider, Tamara Potapova, Jonathan Wood, William Chow, Joel Armstrong, Jeanne Fredrickson, Evgenia Pak, Kristof Tigyi, Milinn Kremitzki, Christopher Markovic, Valerie Maduro, Amalia Dutra, Gerard G Bouffard, Alexander M Chang, Nancy…
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UCSC researchers awarded a record number of patents last year
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute affiliated faculty Dr. Mark Akeson’s nanopore sequencing technology, explained by Nature.com. UCSC | Tim Stephens | August 08, 2019 UC Santa Cruz researchers were awarded 26 new patents in the last fiscal year, a record number for the campus. The new patents include novel compounds with potential medical uses, innovations…
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Human genetic diversity of South America reveals complex history of Amazonia
Phys.org | Max Planck Society | August 1, 2019 The vast cultural and linguistic diversity of Latin American countries is still far from being fully represented by genetic surveys. Western South America in particular holds a key role in the history of the continent due to the presence of three major ecogeographic domains (the Andes,…
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44 Gilliam Fellowships Awarded to Support Diversity and Inclusion in Science
HHMI | July 31, 2019 A good scientific mentor can help students navigate different career paths and plug them into new networks. A mentor can be a sounding board and an advocate – and they can also make the experience of being a scientist more fun. That’s a goal of biologist Samara Reck-Peterson, one of 44…
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Playing a long game
Michael Eisenstein | Nature Methods | 30 July 2019 This past February, Adam Phillippy of the National Human Genome Research Institute showed the genomics community something it had never seen before: a complete human chromosome. It’s no secret that the human genome sequence published in 2000 was merely a fragmented rough draft, and nearly 20…
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Efficient de novo assembly of eleven human genomes using PromethION sequencing and a novel nanopore toolkit
Present workflows for producing human genome assemblies from long-read technologies have cost and production time bottlenecks that prohibit efficient scaling to large cohorts. We demonstrate an optimized PromethION nanopore sequencing method for eleven human genomes. The sequencing, performed on one machine in nine days, achieved an average 63x coverage, 42 Kb read N50, 90% median…
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St. Baldrick’s Foundation grant funds Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative
Emily Beazley Kures for Kids Fund Hero Award provides $400,000 for efforts at UC Santa Cruz to bring comparative genomics analysis to pediatric cancer patients Tim Stephens | UC Santa Cruz | July 23, 2019 The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants, has awarded a fourth year of funding to…
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Dream job: Combining science and illustration
Ph.D. student Jessica Kendall-Bar is fascinated by how wild marine mammals sleep, and also passionate about using art to explain science UCSC.edu | July 16, 2019 | Peggy Townsend Burning Man isn’t a place where you’d expect to find a presentation on research into the sleep patterns of marine mammals. But the week-long extravaganza of…
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Study pinpoints cell types affected in brains of multiple sclerosis patients
University of Cambridge | JULY 17, 2019 Scientists have discovered that a specific brain cell known as a ‘projection neuron’ has a central role to play in the brain changes seen in multiple sclerosis (MS). The research, published today in Nature, shows that projection neurons are damaged by the body’s own immune cells, and that this…
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Holger Schmidt receives IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award
UCSC.edu | July 3, 2019 | By Tim Stephens Holger Schmidt, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been chosen to receive the Engineering Achievement Award of the IEEE Photonics Society. The award recognizes Schmidt and his long-time collaborator, Aaron Hawkins at Brigham Young University, for “the invention and development of optofluidic waveguides…
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Q&A: Life science startup, Claret Bio, comes out of stealth mode
Santa Cruz Tech Beat | June 27, 2019 I met Kelly Harkins Kincaid about two years ago. She was Kelly Harkins back then and she was fully engaged in starting up her startup, Claret Bio, but wasn’t ready for the company to be out of stealth mode. Naturally, I asked her to please let me…