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Brain cells are more plastic than previously thought, study shows
Neurons are the cells in the brain responsible for sending messages to the rest of the body, and scientists have long thought that they are settled into one subtype once they develop from stem cells, no matter what is happening in the environment around them. New research from the Braingeneers reveals that this traditional way of thinking… Read more
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David Deamer named 2024 AAAS fellow
Emeritus Genomics Institute affiliate David Deamer was awarded the lifetime honor along with UCSC Professors Theodore Holman and Raphael Kudela. Deamer researched the foundational science needed to create nanopore sequencing, a revolutionary method for reading DNA and RNA. Read more
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The Human Genome Project’s legacy is still yielding new advances
At the 25th anniversary of the Human Genome Project, the Tech Brew looks back at what it has accomplished, and how its legacy of combining computation and biology has set the stage for future applications in medicine and new advances in AI-powered life sciences at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. Read more
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