by apolozio | Apr 16, 2024 | Nature News, News
Beth Shapiro, Ph.D. Chief Science Officer at Colossal (Photo: Business Wire) Colossal, a company that seeks to bring the mammoth and dodo bird back from extinction, is expanding its support for ancient DNA academic collaborations by pledging a gift of $500K to the...
by rmiyatsu | Apr 15, 2024 | Education News, health news, Nature News, News
April 15, 2024 By Sandra Messick, Rose Miyatsu, Emily Cerf The 2023 recipients of the Chancellor’s Innovation Impact Awards were honored April 11. From left – front row: Chancellor Cynthia Larive, Holger Schmidt, Campus Provost and Executive Vice...
by rmiyatsu | Apr 12, 2024 | Nature News, News
Russ Corbett-Detig and Eric Enbody at the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution in Ferria, Italy, 2023. By Krizia Chambers One of the biggest current challenges in genomics research is figuring out how to make vast amounts of genomic data available to the people...
by rmiyatsu | Mar 20, 2024 | Nature News, News
Beth Shapiro will be taking a leave of absence from UC Santa Cruz to be Chief Scientific Officer of Colossal, a company that is working to bring ancient species back from extinction. Beth Shapiro is Associate Director for Conservation Genomics at the UC Santa Cruz...
by apolozio | Feb 29, 2024 | health news, Nature News, News, Sequencing
Above: Student conducting research (Photo by Elena Zhukova) February 2024 By Grace Stetson Marcela Alfaro-Córdoba knew statistics could help scientists predict the effects of climate change, even though the disciplines of statistics and environmental science don’t...
by rmiyatsu | Feb 26, 2024 | Nature News, News
DNA can tell us much more about extinct species than their fossil records alone, but because of how quickly DNA degrades, there have been limits on how far back in time researchers can go. UCSC professor Beth Shapiro and her colleagues are pushing those limits. Watch...
