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Paleogenomic analysis sheds light on Easter Island mysteries
UC Santa Cruz research appears to rule out pre-European contact with South Americans Jennifer McNulty– Oct 12, 2017 Easter Island is a place of mystery that has captured the public imagination. Famous for ancient carved statues and a location so remote it boggles the mind, the island presents a captivating puzzle for researchers eager to…
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Tailoring Tumor Treatments
Devika G. Bansal, UC Santa Cruz Science Notes “We can’t change which drugs are available,” says Morozova. “But we’re realizing there’s a lot of opportunities [for pediatric cancer]—a lot more than we previously thought.” In May 2012, a ten-year-old boy named Kelvin was diagnosed with an unusual cancer called a sarcoma, a tumor not typically…
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With cancer, it’s not necessarily where it starts but how it starts
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Nobel Laureate: The Future of DNA Sequencing Will Be in the Palm of Your Hand
James D. Watson, Andrew Berry and Kevin Davies, Time Magazine Oct 12, 2017 In January 2014, the then-CEO of Illumina, Jay Flatley, caused a stir at a major healthcare conference in San Francisco when he announced that his company was about to make history by delivering “the $1,000 genome”. For the first time, scientists could…
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Be Bold, Go Bald! for Childhood Cancer Research
2nd Annual St. Baldrick’s Fundraiser FREE haircuts!! One style offered: BALD! …just raise a little money for pediatric cancer research! Benefits of being bald: ~ improved aerodynamics/hydrodynamics ~ raising awareness of childhood cancer ~ showers become amazing scalp massages ~ time to style your hair: ZERO minutes! Here’s how to get your free haircut: 1)…
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[ Wednesday, September 27 ] Genomic profiling of gliomas and gastric cancer in Chinese population
Date: Wednesday, September 27th Time: 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM Location: Biomed Building, Room 200 Mingyu Yang, Ph.D., School of Life Science, Peking University Abstract: Gliomas and gastric cancer are more common in China than in Western countries. We performed RNA-seq of 272 gliomas and Exome-seq of 130 gastric cancer patients in the Chinese population.…
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[09/20/2017] Biomarker Development from Deep Transcriptome Profiling and the Depth of Sequencing Required
Location: E2-599, UCSC Campus When: Wednesday September 20, 2017 3:30-4:30 PM Speaker: Anthony Schweitzer Abstract: Technologies such as next generation sequencing are showing us brief glimpses of the enormous complexities within our cells transcriptomes. Non-coding RNAs and alternative splicing events are new sources of biomarker development. These biomarkers help identify risk for disease, diagnose disease, guide treatment…
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[October 12 & 13, La Jolla, CA] Annual Meeting of the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM)
This event will bring together ~ 200 precision medicine thought leaders and stakeholders from diverse disciplines and sectors in California and across the country to build community, facilitate collaborations, and discover and pursue opportunities in precision medicine. David Haussler will be among the speakers, updating attendees on the California Kids Cancer Comparison. Registration for CIAPM…
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[Thursday, September 21, 2017] Structurally conserved primate lncRNAs are transiently expressed during human cortical differentiation and influence cell type specific genes
Thursday, September 21, 2017 – 2:00 pm Location – Biomedical Sciences, Room 200 Host – Professor David Haussler Abstract: The cerebral cortex has undergone rapid changes in size and complexity in the primate lineage, yet the molecular processes underlying primate brain development are poorly understood. We have developed a common protocol for generating cortical organoids…
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[12/07/2017] BME 280B Fall 2017 Seminar Series Part: Ten
*Pizza will be provided for all lectures in the series courtesy of Dovetail Genomics Elevator Talks Location: Biomed 200, UCSC Campus When: Thursday, December 07, 2017
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[11/30/2017] BME 280B Fall 2017 Seminar Series Part: Nine
*Pizza will be provided for all lectures in the series courtesy of Dovetail Genomics Nanopipette technology and its applications Location: Biomed 200, UCSC Campus When: Thursday, November 30, 2017 11:40 AM Speaker: Nader Pourmand Research Areas: Bioelectronics, biosensors, chemosensors, nanotechnology, single cell characterization, sequencing, genotyping, pathogen detection, DNA fingerprinting Using CRISPR Gene Editing to Find Oncogenic Exon Skipping Events in…
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[11/16/2017] BME 280B Fall 2017 Seminar Series Part: Eight
Rotation Talks Location: Biomed 200, UCSC Campus When: Thursday, November 16, 2017 12:30 – 2:00 PM