Category: News
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Biotechnology’s rapid growth on Santa Cruz’s Westside
By Calvin Men, Santa Cruz Sentinel POSTED: 09/25/17 SANTA CRUZ >> Dan Heller has a swatch of carpet samples leaning against a chair in his office. The CEO of Two Pore Guys, a biotech company, is gearing up for the company’s accelerated growth. The company just expanded the office space to 16,000 square feet and plan on…
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World-Renowned Health Research on the Hill
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute is Unlocking Life’s Genetic Code to Unravel Disease SANTA CRUZ, CA – November 9, 2017 – Surrounded by redwoods and breathtaking views of the Monterey Bay, the 150+ Santa Cruz researchers and scientists at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute have their eyes trained on their computer screens. They are…
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Bioinformatics leaders partner to build platform for NIH Data Commons
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of Chicago, and the Broad Institute will create the Commons Alliance Platform with funding from the National Institutes of Health November 06, 2017 By Tim Stephens The life sciences are in the midst of a data revolution. Technologies such as genome sequencing, gene-expression analysis, and high-resolution imaging are generating vast…
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Startup Sandbox to enhance Santa Cruz’s biotech competitiveness
By SARA ISENBERG – October 5, 2017 “Our goal is to foster the commercialization of research discoveries and attract intellectual and financial capital that is essential to our region’s economic vitality.” — Alireza Chavosh, Director Startup Sandbox, a new biotechnology incubator affiliated with UC Santa Cruz, opened its doors on August 1, 2017 at 250 Natural…
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PORE STRENGTH
A company with UC Santa Cruz roots called Two Pore Guys has created a biosensing device that may revolutionize the way we do medicine and live in our environment. It was early 2010 and Bill Dunbar paced the hallway between his office and his lab in UC Santa Cruz’s Engineering 2 building. A lanky surfer…
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A Rich Tradition of Non-Traditional Thinking
UC Santa Cruz bioengineering undergrad Stefanie Brizuela is used to defying odds and thinking differently. It’s what propelled her through the rigorous application process as she earned a prestigious research scholarship from the National Institutes of Health. Stefanie, like many Banana Slugs, wants her story to inspire future first-generation, Latina, LGBT, and other students from…
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Gene Expression Map of Human Body Gives Value to Variants
By: Alzforum, Jessica Shugart – October 23, 2017 The DNA packaged neatly inside the nucleus of almost every cell in a person may be identical, but which parts are translated varies dramatically by cell type and by individual genome. In a Herculean effort to connect form to function, the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project correlated genetic variations in…
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Data-rich, low-cost technologies help disarm diseases globally
by Andy Evangelista – October 3, 2017 Throughout UC, resourceful faculty and students who are committed to improving world health are turning out technologies to help governments, surveillance workers and doctors detect and treat diseases that are all too prevalent in poor countries. A wealth of knowledge and data come from basic science laboratories, computer centers where…
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The Promise of Precision Medicine
Thu, 10/05/2017 – 8:00am by Rob Currie, Technical Officer, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and Isabel Bjork, Director Precision Medicine, Pediatric Cancer Programs, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Precision medicine promises to turn the medical framework on its head. Rather than only testing therapies to determine whether they are safe and effective for ‘most’ before…
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UC Santa Cruz Goes Bald to Support Childhood Cancer Research
Staff and students join St. Baldrick’s Foundation event to raise money to fight childhood cancer SANTA CRUZ, CA – October 17 , 2017 – The St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a volunteer-powered organization dedicated to raising money for children’s cancer research, will host one of its signature head-shaving events at UC Santa Cruz’s Science & Engineering Library…
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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…