Category: News
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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,…
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Why This Scientist Keeps Receiving Packages of Serial Killers’ Hair
Dr. Ed Green Photo Credit: James Tensuan for The New York Times Heather Murphy | New York Times | September 16, 2019 Those fortunate enough to have a head of hair generally leave 50 to 100 strands behind on any given day. Those hairs are hardy, capable of withstanding years or even centuries of rain, heat and wind. The trouble…
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With new headquarters, UCSC Genomics Institute looks to anchor Santa Cruz biotech boom
Scientific Director of the UCSC Genomics Institute David Haussler, at right, and Alexander Wolf, Dean of the Baskin School of Engineering, answer questions about the Genomics Institute’s new Delaware Avenue headquarters. (Dan Coyro — Santa Cruz Sentinel) Nicholas Ibarra | Santa Cruz Sentinel | September 6, 2019 SANTA CRUZ — The UC Santa Cruz Genomics…
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Scientist creates a ‘ground-breaking’ technique to crack cold cases by extracting DNA from stray strands of HAIR without a root left behind at crime scenes by killers and victims
Photo Credit: AP Dr. Ed Green (pictured), a paleogeneticist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is an expert in finding DNA where others can not and his skills are now being used by law enforcement. He has helped sequence the entire genome of the first Neanderthals and Denisovans Joe Pinkstone | The Daily Mail…
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Vertebrate, Earth Genome Projects Provide Updates, Stress Impact on Conservation
Aug 28, 2019 | GenomeWeb | Julia Karow NEW YORK – The Genome 10K’s Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) and the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP) are moving ahead in their quests to sequence the genomes of all living vertebrate species and all eukaryotic species, respectively. During a presentation at a joint G10K-VGP/EBP meeting at Rockefeller University…
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VGP generates largest number of high-quality genomes of iconic and endangered species
The VGP GenomeArk provides access to genome sequencing and assembly data generated by the Vertebrate Genomes Project.” Rockefeller University | August 28, 2019 The Vertebrate Genomes Project (VGP) and collaborators are announcing the second data set of the largest number (101) of chromosomal-level genome assemblies of vertebrates towards completing Phase 1 of the VGP, which includes one…
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New Long Read Assemblers for De Novo Genomes Promise Speed, Scalability
Figure 1: Nanopore sequencing results. (a) Throughput in gigabases from each of three flowcells for eleven samples, with total throughput at top. (b) Read N50s for each flowcell. (c) Alignment identities against GRCh38. Medians in a, b and c shown by dashed lines, dotted line in c is mode. (d) Genome coverage as a function of read length. Dashed lines indicate coverage at…