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  • State of Science: Finding Human Ancestors in New Places

    State of Science: Finding Human Ancestors in New Places

    Researchers gain insights into human brain evolution and find evidence of our ancestors in new places. Discover Magazine | Jan. 15, 2019 | Gemma Tarlach How to Build a Brain The human brain is a big deal. In relation to body size, it’s nearly six times bigger than that of other placental mammals. Our brains’…

  • Western Digital, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and Baskin School of Engineering Collaborate to Accelerate Genomics Sequencing

    Western Digital, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and Baskin School of Engineering Collaborate to Accelerate Genomics Sequencing

    Pictured: Benedict Paten, Director of the Computational Genomics Lab and Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Jan. 29, 2019 SAN JOSE, Calif. & SANTA CRUZ, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Western Digital Corp. (NASDAQ: WDC), the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and Baskin School of Engineering announced today that they have entered into a multi-year, joint research and development agreement…

  • BRCA Exchange aggregates data on thousands of BRCA variants to understand cancer risk

    BRCA Exchange aggregates data on thousands of BRCA variants to understand cancer risk

    A global resource that includes data on thousands of inherited variants in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes is available to the public. The BRCA Exchange was created through the BRCA Challenge, a long-term demonstration project initiated by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) to enhance sharing of BRCA1 and BRCA2 data. The resource,…

  • UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute research sheds light on gray matter

    UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute research sheds light on gray matter

    Investigators at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and UCSC Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells are helping complete the picture of what makes us human.

  • New App Co-Created at UC Santa Cruz Helps Track Variants that Increase Cancer Risk

    New App Co-Created at UC Santa Cruz Helps Track Variants that Increase Cancer Risk

    SANTA CRUZ, CA – January 8, 2019  – The BRCA Exchange, the largest public source for information on BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants, has just launched a new app designed to allow users to easily follow breast cancer variants on their smartphones. The app is available for IOS and Android, and allows users to sign up to…

  • Biologist Jeremy Sanford awarded prestigious $1.85 million grant from NIH

    Biologist Jeremy Sanford awarded prestigious $1.85 million grant from NIH

    MIRA grant funds Sanford to extend his studies of the mechanisms of RNA processing and RNA-binding proteins, which are involved in inherited diseases and cancer Jan 9, 2019 | Tim Stephens Jeremy Sanford, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, has received a $1.85 million grant from the Maximizing Investigators’ Research…

  • UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute helps develop BRCA Exchange to inform understanding of cancer risk by aggregating data on thousands of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants

    UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute helps develop BRCA Exchange to inform understanding of cancer risk by aggregating data on thousands of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants

    UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute helps develop BRCA Exchange to inform understanding of cancer risk by aggregating data on thousands of BRCA1 and BRCA2 variants SANTA CRUZ, CA – January 8, 2019 Researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute have helped develop a global resource that includes data on thousands of inherited variants in…

  • A year of growth, change, and forging ahead at UC Santa Cruz

    A year of growth, change, and forging ahead at UC Santa Cruz

    December 17, 2018, By Dan White At UC Santa Cruz, 2018 was a banner year for stargazers, social justice advocates, literary lights, cancer researchers, and students taking to the streets to provide data for a sweeping survey on housing.It was also the first official UC Santa Cruz “Year of Alumni,” celebrating the success and influence…

  • Jenny Reardon – Genomics And Justice: The Untold Story

    Jenny Reardon – Genomics And Justice: The Untold Story

    Listen to Jenny Reardon’s podcast, available on SoundCloud.

  • Three Baskin Engineering faculty awarded $527,000 NSF Grant for Genomic Data Privacy Protection Innovation

    Three Baskin Engineering faculty awarded $527,000 NSF Grant for Genomic Data Privacy Protection Innovation

    Abhradeep Guha Thakurta (Computer Science and Engineering), Dimitris Achlioptas (Computer Science and Engineering), and Russell Corbett-Detig (Biomolecular Engineering) are co-PIs on this project, titled “TRIPODS+X:RES: Collaborative Research: Privacy-Preserving Genomic Data Analysis,” which seeks to implement privacy protection for genomic data by making and leveraging statistical assumptions about the data. The main idea of this project…

  • UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute is Home to 2018’s Highly Cited Researchers

    UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute is Home to 2018’s Highly Cited Researchers

    Each year, Clarivate Analytics recognizes world-class researchers selected for their exceptional research performance, demonstrated by production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations for field and year in “Web of Science.” Congratulations to 2018’s most highly cited researchers based in Santa Cruz, including UCSC Genome Browser staff members Galt…

  • Long noncoding RNA identified as a key regulator of inflammation

    Long noncoding RNA identified as a key regulator of inflammation

    Scientists have identified an RNA molecule with broad powers to regulate the body’s inflammatory response to infection and injury. Called lincRNA-Cox2, it belongs to a recently discovered, highly abundant class of RNAs whose functions are only beginning to be understood.The sequencing of the human genome revealed that only a small fraction of the DNA in…

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