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Nanopore native RNA sequencing of a human poly(A) transcriptome
Rachael E. Workman, Alison D. Tang, Paul S. Tang, Miten Jain, John R. Tyson, Roham Razaghi, Philip C. Zuzarte, Timothy Gilpatrick, Alexander Payne, Joshua Quick, Norah Sadowski, Nadine Holmes, Jaqueline Goes de Jesus, Karen L. Jones, Cameron M. Soulette, Terrance P. Snutch, Nicholas Loman, Benedict Paten, Matthew Loose, Jared T. Simpson, Hugh E. Olsen, Angela…
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$8.5 million gift supports UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
Tim Stephens | UCSC | October 08, 2019 UC Santa Cruz has received an anonymous gift of $8.5 million to support the Genomics Institute’s pioneering interdisciplinary research. The gift, which will be made in annual installments over the next ten years, establishes the Healthier World Fund for the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute. “We are…
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A picture is worth a thousand base pairs
When Adam Siepel was building algorithms for evolutionary genomics as part of his PhD, he wasn’t thinking about visualization. But, as a graduate student in the laboratory of computational biologist David Haussler, at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), he happened to sit next to the software engineers who were building and maintaining a…
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Whole genome sequencing could help save pumas from inbreeding
When students at UC Santa Cruz found a dead mule deer on campus, they figured it had been killed by coyotes. Wildlife biologist Chris Wilmers rigged up a video camera to spy on the carcass at night. But the animal that crept out of the shadows to dine on the deer was no coyote—it was…
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First Annual Get Biotech 2019 a Success
Over 250 people filled every seat in the house for the first annual Get Biotech 2019. Keynote speaker David Deamer enthralled the audience with his journey which started with a Sunday drive, conceiving an idea, pulling over to the side of the road, sketching it out, and going on to become a cornerstone of the…
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List of most highly cited researchers features 18 UCSC scientists and engineers
A new list of the world’s most highly cited researchers includes 18 scientists and engineers at UC Santa Cruz.
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FrankenCon Descends on Santa Cruz
Whether on page, stage or screen, Frankenstein has proven to be the eternal story, largely because of its brilliant alchemy to be both timeless and timely. It offers themes of universal human experience that art has been wrestling with since antiquity, and of how to grapple with the ethical dimensions of science and technology that…
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Comprehensive study of UCSC-developed RNA reader appears in Nature Methods
Oxford Nanopore Technologies’s palm-sized DNA and RNA sequencer, the MinION, has been used in Africa during the Ebola epidemic, orbited above planet earth in the International Space Station, and can be found analyzing samples in laboratories all over the world.
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Biotech blooms on Santa Cruz’s westside
The Genomics Institute, based out of the Baskin School of Engineering, recently moved from its campus offices to the Westside Research Park at 2300 Delaware Ave. (Photo by Steve Kurtz) The Westside Research Park, the new name for buildings at 2300 Delaware Ave., is home to a growing number of laboratories as well as the…
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NIH Funds New Centers To Expand And Diversify The Human Reference Genome
NIH funds new centers to expand and diversify the human reference genome The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute will play a leading role in the ambitious new Human Pangenome Reference Sequence Project Tim Stephens | UCSC | Sep 24, 2019 New grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling approximately $29.5 million will enable…
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UCSC research new crime fighting tech, help crack major case
Remarkable research happening on the central coast to fight crime. A lab at UC Santa Cruz is able to get DNA from root-less hair, and the technology has already been used to crack a major case Alani Letang | KSBW | September18, 2019 SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Remarkable research happening on the central coast to…
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UCSC’s Genomics Institute settles into new Delaware Avenue headquarters
David Haussler, director of the UCSC Genomics Institute, explains a poster of the human genome sequence to Genomics Institute visitors. The Institute plans to host a grand opening celebration for its new headquarters Oct. 18. This invitation-only celebration will offer a peek at the new facilities. The agenda includes remarks from UCSC Chancellor Cynthia Larive,…