Category: News

  • Optofluidic chip with nanopore ‘smart gate’ developed for single molecule analysis

    Programmable device enables on-demand delivery of individual biomolecules with feedback-controlled gating for high-throughput analysis UCSC | Tim Stephens| August 16, 2019 A new chip-based platform developed by researchers at UC Santa Cruz integrates nanopores and optofluidic technology with a feedback-control circuit to enable an unprecedented level of control over individual molecules and particles on a…

  • UC Santa Cruz receives $400,000 grant for pediatric cancer research

    UC Santa Cruz receives $400,000 grant for pediatric cancer research

    Funds support the Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative in improving clinical care and treatment option Elaine Ingalls | Santa Cruz Sentinel | August 16, 2019 SANTA CRUZ — UC Santa Cruz has received $400,000 as one of 55 grants from the St. Baldrick’s Foundation for pediatric cancer research. The foundation announced July 23 that its 55…

  • UCSC researchers awarded a record number of patents last year

    UCSC researchers awarded a record number of patents last year

    UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute affiliated faculty Dr. Mark Akeson’s nanopore sequencing technology, explained by Nature.com. UCSC | Tim Stephens | August 08, 2019 UC Santa Cruz researchers were awarded 26 new patents in the last fiscal year, a record number for the campus. The new patents include novel compounds with potential medical uses, innovations…

  • Human genetic diversity of South America reveals complex history of Amazonia

    Human genetic diversity of South America reveals complex history of Amazonia

    Phys.org | Max Planck Society | August 1, 2019 The vast cultural and linguistic diversity of Latin American countries is still far from being fully represented by genetic surveys. Western South America in particular holds a key role in the history of the continent due to the presence of three major ecogeographic domains (the Andes,…

  • 44 Gilliam Fellowships Awarded to Support Diversity and Inclusion in Science

    44 Gilliam Fellowships Awarded to Support Diversity and Inclusion in Science

    HHMI | July 31, 2019 A good scientific mentor can help students navigate different career paths and plug them into new networks. A mentor can be a sounding board and an advocate – and they can also make the experience of being a scientist more fun. That’s a goal of biologist Samara Reck-Peterson, one of 44…

  • Playing a long game

    Playing a long game

    Michael Eisenstein | Nature Methods | 30 July 2019 This past February, Adam Phillippy of the National Human Genome Research Institute showed the genomics community something it had never seen before: a complete human chromosome. It’s no secret that the human genome sequence published in 2000 was merely a fragmented rough draft, and nearly 20…

  • Mouse, Not Just Tick: New Genome Heralds Change in Lyme Disease Fight

    Mouse, Not Just Tick: New Genome Heralds Change in Lyme Disease Fight

    Infection Control Today | Jul 25, 2019 As Lyme disease increases, researchers have taken a significant step toward finding new ways to prevent its transmission. The experts, who include a pioneer in Lyme disease discovery, have sequenced the genome of the animal carrying the bacteria that causes the illness. The advance by researchers at the…

  • St. Baldrick’s Foundation grant funds Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative

    St. Baldrick’s Foundation grant funds Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative

    Emily Beazley Kures for Kids Fund Hero Award provides $400,000 for efforts at UC Santa Cruz to bring comparative genomics analysis to pediatric cancer patients Tim Stephens | UC Santa Cruz | July 23, 2019 The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, the largest private funder of childhood cancer research grants, has awarded a fourth year of funding to…

  • Dream job: Combining science and illustration

    Dream job: Combining science and illustration

    Ph.D. student Jessica Kendall-Bar is fascinated by how wild marine mammals sleep, and also passionate about using art to explain science UCSC.edu | July 16, 2019 | Peggy Townsend Burning Man isn’t a place where you’d expect to find a presentation on research into the sleep patterns of marine mammals.  But the week-long extravaganza of…

  • Study pinpoints cell types affected in brains of multiple sclerosis patients

    Study pinpoints cell types affected in brains of multiple sclerosis patients

     University of Cambridge | JULY 17, 2019 Scientists have discovered that a specific brain cell known as a ‘projection neuron’ has a central role to play in the brain changes seen in multiple sclerosis (MS). The research, published today in Nature, shows that projection neurons are damaged by the body’s own immune cells, and that this…

  • Holger Schmidt receives IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award

    Holger Schmidt receives IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award

    UCSC.edu | July 3, 2019 | By Tim Stephens Holger Schmidt, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been chosen to receive the Engineering Achievement Award of the IEEE Photonics Society. The award recognizes Schmidt and his long-time collaborator, Aaron Hawkins at Brigham Young University, for “the invention and development of optofluidic waveguides…

  • Q&A: Life science startup, Claret Bio, comes out of stealth mode

    Q&A: Life science startup, Claret Bio, comes out of stealth mode

    Santa Cruz Tech Beat | June 27, 2019 I met Kelly Harkins Kincaid about two years ago. She was Kelly Harkins back then and she was fully engaged in starting up her startup, Claret Bio, but wasn’t ready for the company to be out of stealth mode. Naturally, I asked her to please let me…

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