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  • Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows

    Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows

    Christina Larson | AP News | July 16, 2021 What makes humans unique? Scientists have taken another step toward solving an enduring mystery with a new tool that may allow for more precise comparisons between the DNA of modern humans and that of our extinct ancestors. Just 7% of our genome is uniquely shared with…

  • Humans of BSOE: Meet Zia Isola

    Humans of BSOE: Meet Zia Isola

    Zia is the Director of UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Office of Diversity Programs, helping develop & manage programs that promote diversity & inclusion in STEM education & research at Baskin Engineering. UCSC Engineering | July 20, 2021 Zia Isola first came to UC Santa Cruz over 13 years ago. In addition to her primary…

  • The Edge Episode 13: Should We Bring Back Woolly Mammoths?

    The Edge Episode 13: Should We Bring Back Woolly Mammoths?

    Listen to the podcast: “The Edge Episode 13: Should We Bring Back Woolly Mammoths?” Passenger pigeons. Woolly mammoths. Neanderthals. They’re all extinct. But what if we could bring them back? And if we could, should we? Geneticists are exploring de-extincting extinct and near-extinct species, but ethical and logistical problems abound. Laura and Leah sit down…

  • Scientists Finish the Human Genome at Last

    Scientists Finish the Human Genome at Last

    The complete genome uncovered more than 100 new genes that are probably functional, and many new variants that may be linked to diseases. Carl Zimmer | New York Times | July 23, 2021 Two decades after the draft sequence of the human genome was unveiled to great fanfare, a team of 99 scientists has finally deciphered the…

  • Unique Fraction of Modern Human Genome Surprisingly Small, Comparison With Archaic Hominins Suggests

    Unique Fraction of Modern Human Genome Surprisingly Small, Comparison With Archaic Hominins Suggests

    An employee of the Natural History Museum in London looks at model of a Neanderthal male in his twenties, which is on display at the museum’s “Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story” exhibition, September 2014. Will Oliver/PA Images/Getty BusinessInsider At most, just 7% of the human genome is unique to our species, we…

  • Nearly Complete Human Genome Sequenced

    Nearly Complete Human Genome Sequenced

    Jef Akst | The Scientist | June 8, 2021 The Human Genome Project was a tour de force that resulted in the first draft human genome sequence in 2000, but it wasn’t actually complete. The work left sequence gaps that genomicist Karen Miga of the University of California, Santa Cruz, calls the “final unknown” in…

  • Researchers claim they have sequenced the entirety of the human genome — including the missing parts

    Researchers claim they have sequenced the entirety of the human genome — including the missing parts

    Matthew Herper | STAT | June 1, 2021 An international team of scientists says it has sequenced and assembled the entirety of the human genome, including parts that were missed in the sequencing of the first human genome two decades ago. The claim, if confirmed, surpasses the achievement laid out by leaders from the Human…

  • Science, detective work identify victim of 27-year-old Charlotte County murder

    Science, detective work identify victim of 27-year-old Charlotte County murder

    ABC7 Staff | WWSB Sarasota, FL | June 9, 2021 Some modern scientific lab tests, along with some old-fashioned detective work, has identified the victim of a 27-year-old murder case in Charlotte County, authorities said Wednesday. The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office announced that a body found in the woods in northern Charlotte County in 1994…

  • The Human Genome Is—Finally!—Complete

    The Human Genome Is—Finally!—Complete

    The Human Genome Project left 8 percent of our DNA unexplored. Now, for the first time, those enigmatic regions have been revealed. Sarah Zhang | June 11, 2021 | The Atlantic When the human genome was first deemed “complete” in 2000, the news was met with great international fanfare. The two rival groups vying to finish the…

  • A Lack of COVID-19 Genomes Could Prolong the Pandemic

    A Lack of COVID-19 Genomes Could Prolong the Pandemic

    Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine Genomic surveillance of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can help control the current pandemic and prevent future ones. But the process is marred by insufficient data and geographic inequities. Puja Changoiwala | Quanta Magazine | June 28, 2021 Back at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, before the disease had even drawn the attention…

  • Leading Scientist Working to Complete the Human Genome to Join UCSC Faculty

    Leading Scientist Working to Complete the Human Genome to Join UCSC Faculty

    Karen Miga is a longtime Genomics Institute researcher, named “one to watch” by the journal Nature SANTA CRUZ, CA – June 10, 2021 – While the Telomere-to-Telomere (T2T) Consortium was heralding “the first truly complete assembly of a human genome,” University of California, Santa Cruz Assistant Research Scientist Karen Miga, the preprint’s lead author who…

  • The complete sequence of a human genome

    The complete sequence of a human genome

    In 2001, Celera Genomics and the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium published their initial drafts of the human genome, which revolutionized the field of genomics. While these drafts and the updates that followed effectively covered the euchromatic fraction of the genome,

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