Category: News
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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A complete human genome sequence is close: how scientists filled in the gaps
Researchers added 200 million DNA base pairs and 115 protein-coding genes — but they’ve yet to entirely sequence the Y chromosome.
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When DNA Research Doesn’t Benefit All of Us
(Illustration by Maiken Scott) The Pulse, WHYY | May 21, 2021 There’s long been an idea that sharing our DNA for research benefits the greater good — that it leads to new insights, new medications, and new discoveries. In humans, 99.9% of DNA is the same. It’s the 0.1% that makes us different — holding…
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UCSC Genome Browser’s Angie Hinrichs Named to International SARS-CoV-2 Lineage Designation Committee
June 1, 2021 — Santa Cruz, CA — Researchers at the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh have announced the formalization of the Pango Network (https://pango.network), an international team of experts organized to oversee the coordinated identification and naming of different lineages of SARS-CoV-2 virus. This is the same team behind the widely used virus names…
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Scientific Director Ranks Near Top in Computer Science Research
We are very proud to share that our Scientific Director David Haussler ranks #6 in the world and #5 in the United States, according to Guide2Research’s 2021 Ranking of Top Scientists in the field of Computer Science and Electronics. The ranking is based on the H-Index metric provided by Google Scholar and includes only leading…
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Progress, Challenges, and Surprises in Annotating the Human Genome
CAPTION: Organizations that support the GRC assembly and its gene annotations. Abbreviations: e!, Ensembl Project; GRC, Genome Reference Consortium; HGNC, Human Genome Organisation (HUGO) Gene Nomenclature Committee; INSDC, International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration; NCBI, National Center for Biotechnology Information; UCSC, University of California, Santa Cruz. Daniel R. Zerbino, Adam Frankish, and Paul Flicek | Annual…
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The Human Genome Project: 20 Years Later
The Agenda with Steve PaikinEpisode:The Human Genome Project at 20Aired: Mar 01, 2021 In February 2001, after a remarkable global effort, the Human Genome Project published its first draft in an effort to map the 3 billion big pairs of our entire genome. That was heralded as a massive accomplishment that would yield incredible dividends.…
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Ambitious Project Races to Read Genomes of 71,000 Species
Caption: Scientists can use genome sequencing to learn how to better protect critically endangered species such as the California condor. UCSC Genomics Institute researchers contribute to learning more about vertebrates Isabella Backman | MAY 12, 2021 | Good Times About 4 billion years ago, the first cellular life came into existence. Ever since, parents have…