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Catch up with UC Santa Cruz researchers including Rebecca DuBois, Holger Schmidt and Nader Pourmand, who have all contributed to the effort to combat COVID-19. It’s all covered in the StoryCruz podcast, hosted by UCSC communications staffers Gwen and Dan: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/storycruz/e/68983710. Subscribe to StoryCruz wherever you get your podcasts and keep in touch with the…
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Haussler-Salama lab alumna Erin LaMontagne is awarded prestigious 2020 NSF GRFP fellowship
Yvonne Vasquez | Apr 9, 2020 | Haussler-Salama Lab Alumna, Erin Lamontagne was an undergraduate researcher in our lab starting in 2015 and graduated in 2016. During her time in our lab she was mentored by Dr. Andrew Field, and compared neural differentiation of different primate stem cell lines to identify long noncoding RNAs unique…
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The Decade in Genomics: CRISPR, Single Cells, Long Reads, Clinical and Consumer Applications
Julia Karow | GenomeWeb | Mar 31, 2020 NEW YORK – Genomics has made a big leap forward over the past decade, both in terms of new technologies and clinical applications. While the first decade of the century was marked by the completion of the Human Genome Project and the advent of next-generation sequencing, the…
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UC Santa Cruz scientists to provide rapid COVID-19 testing by end of month
Phil Gomez | KSBW | Apr 06, 2020 While doctors and nurses treat COVID-19 patients on the front lines, behind the scenes scientists are working hard in their labs to come up with ways to battle the pandemic. One thing University of California, Santa Cruz scientists are working on is to create a diagnostic testing lab…
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Discrimination, governance, and trust in the age of COVID-19
Jennifer McNulty | UCSC | April 02, 2020 The coronavirus pandemic has upended daily life around the world, and is simultaneously triggering challenging questions of discrimination, governance, and trust, says sociologist Jenny Reardon, who calls for higher levels of public oversight and vigilance as the pandemic unfolds. Reardon, the director of the Science and Justice Research Center at…
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Genomics Institute launches landing page for COVID-19 data resources
The browser team at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute has launched a new landing page for resources related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the SARS-CoV-2 Genome Browser and lung gene expression datasets on the UCSC Cell Browser.
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UCSC researchers are taking on the coronavirus challenge on multiple fronts
From developing diagnostic tests to conducting surveys of infection prevalence, campus researchers are doing what they can in response to the COVID-19 pandemic Tim Stephens | UCSC | April 01, 2020 The UC Santa Cruz campus has been eerily quiet since stay-at-home orders went into effect to limit the spread of the coronavirus causing the…
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The UCSC Repeat Browser allows discovery and visualization of evolutionary conflict across repeat families
Mobile DNA | 31 March, 2020 Jason D. Fernandes, Armando Zamudio-Hurtado, W. James Kent, David Haussler, Sofie R. Salama, Maximilian Haeussler Abstract Background Nearly half the human genome consists of repeat elements, most of which are retrotransposons, and many of these sequences play important biological roles. However repeat elements pose several unique challenges to current bioinformatic analyses and visualization tools, as short repeat sequences can map to…
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Local Philanthropists Fund COVID-19 Genome Browser Work
March 30, 2020 Thanks to a generous gift from Santa Cruz-area philanthropists Pat and Rowland Rebele, the UCSC Genome Browser team’s SARS-CoV-2 genome browser now includes displays of the novel corornavirus’s molecular evolution in other species and its further evolution during this human pandemic. This information is made available to researchers everywhere, with the goal…
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How a Jane Doe child case uncovered a serial killer, identified victims and changed the use of DNA forensics forever
Leighton Schneider | WCSJ News | Mar 19, 2020 (LOS ANGELES) — Former California homicide detective Roxane Gruenheid had helped put a murderer behind bars, and yet, there was something about the suspect that nagged at her — something in his murky past that told her this wasn’t the end of his story. It was…
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UC experts take on COVID-19
UC Office of the President | Wednesday, March 11, 2020 The University of California has been on the front lines in the fight against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, since the earliest indications of its emergence in China. From top-flight medical care to groundbreaking research, UC’s scientists and physicians across its 10 campuses and…
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The Outlook for 2020 and Beyond
Image Source: YinYang / Getty Images GEN invites its readers to gaze into the crystal ball that is the January 2020 issue Mike May, PHD | Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | January 3, 2020 The crystal ball has had its ups and downs as a means of divination. Although it was esteemed by the…