Author: Rose Miyatsu

  • Why Biotechnology Should Embrace the Power of Machine Learning to Bring Inductive Reasoning to Bioengineering

    GEN Exclusives – Building Biology with Machine Learning April 10, 2017 by Claes Gustafsson, Ph.D. “So if we understand the powerful and intuitive nature of ML [machine learning], what has limited its application in bioengineering? Is it just too new an idea? Probably not, seeing as early as the 1990s, thought leaders like David Haussler at…

  • How Trump budget could affect Santa Cruz County

    How Trump budget could affect Santa Cruz County

    SANTA CRUZ >> President Trump’s budget blueprint for 2018 emphasizes fiscal responsibility and reduces or eliminates hundreds of programs “to redefine the proper role of the federal government,” according to a document sent March 13 to Congress, which under the Constitution has the “power of the purse.”What could this mean for Santa Cruz County, which…

  • A federated ecosystem for sharing genomic, clinical data

    A federated ecosystem for sharing genomic, clinical data

    Originally published on Science Policy Forum  Early data-sharing efforts have led to improved variant interpretation and development of treatments for rare diseases and some cancer types (1–3). However, such benefits will only be available to the general population if researchers and clinicians can access and make comparisons across data from millions of individuals. Despite much…

  • Future Flock

    Future Flock

    By Kelly Servick, UCSC Science Communication Program Illustration by Jessica Hsiung Twelve birds lie belly-up in a wooden drawer. Bloated with stuffing, their ruddy brown chests resemble a row of sweet potatoes. Slate blue heads and thin white tails protrude in perfect alignment, except for one bird that cranes its neck to face its neighbor.…

  • New DNA sequencer uses nanopore concepts pioneered at UC Santa Cruz

    New DNA sequencer uses nanopore concepts pioneered at UC Santa Cruz

    By Tim Stevens, UCSC Public Information For more than 15 years, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been developing technology to analyze DNA strands as they pass through a tiny pore in a membrane, called a “nanopore” because it is just 1.5 nanometers wide at its narrowest point. Now, Oxford Nanopore Technologies of Oxford,…

  • Genome 10K project announces first 101 species for genome sequencing

    Genome 10K project announces first 101 species for genome sequencing

    By Branwyn WagmanSANTA CRUZ, CA–The Genome 10K Community of Scientists and BGI (formerly the Beijing Genomics Institute) of Shenzhen, China, have announced a plan to sequence the genomes of 101 vertebrate species within the next two years, the first of an eventual 10,000 species to be sequenced by the Genome 10K Project.The Genome 10K Project (G10K)…

  • Nadine Gassner receives 2010 Ellen Weaver Award for mentoring women in science

    Nadine Gassner receives 2010 Ellen Weaver Award for mentoring women in science

    By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information OfficeNadine Gassner, associate director of the UC Santa Cruz Chemical Screening Center, has been chosen to receive the 2010 Ellen Weaver Award for mentoring young women in science.The Ellen Weaver Award, presented by the Northern California Chapter of the Association of Women in Science (NCC-AWIS), is given to a woman who is…

  • UCSC bioinformatics experts are partners in national cancer genetics project

    UCSC bioinformatics experts are partners in national cancer genetics project

    By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information OfficeResearchers in the Jack Baskin School of Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, will establish a Cancer Genome Data Analysis Center as part of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), a $275 million collaborative project led by the National Cancer Institute and the National Human Genome Research Institute.The…

  • Baskin Engineering earns top awards at UC Bioengineering Symposium

    Baskin Engineering earns top awards at UC Bioengineering Symposium

    By Richard Hughey, Computer Engineering, UCSCUCSC bioengineering researchers made a splash at UC Merced during this year’s systemwide symposium on bioengineering.Professor of Computer Engineering Roberto Manduchi received the first-place poster award for Ariadne’s Thread: A Wayfinding Tool for the Visually Impaired Based on Camera Cell Phones. The poster describes a system of using special color markers easily detectable…

  • Haussler and Stuart part of breast cancer “Dream Team”

    Haussler and Stuart part of breast cancer “Dream Team”

    Team will pursue personalized treatment that targets individual cancers with tailored therapies A $16.5 million, three-year grant to develop new and more effective therapies to fight breast cancer was awarded today to a multi-institutional “Dream Team” of scientists and clinicians that includes biomolecular engineers Josh Stuart and David Haussler from UC Santa Cruz. Haussler is…

  • Stem cell symposium showcases new facilities and research

    Stem cell symposium showcases new facilities and research

    By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information OfficeWhere do blood cells come from? How do neurons develop to create the complex wiring of the brain? Can we build a better microscope to study living cells?These are among the questions UCSC stem cell researchers are investigating with funding from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Their work could…

  • UCSC student business plan competition

    UCSC student business plan competition

    UC Santa Cruz challenges any student who has a good idea for a business to participate in the campus’s first ever Business Plan Competition. This competition is open to students of any major, year, and experience. By participating in this competition, students can generate exposure to potential employers, gain important experience, place an impressive point…

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