Category: News
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UC Catalyst award furthers paleogenomics research
Anthropologist Lars Fehren-Schmitz will lead a project to expand the work being done by the UC Santa Cruz Human Paleogenomics Lab, an effort that’s one of the recipients of the University of California President’s Research Catalyst Awards. The project, receiving $278,000, was chosen from a pool of more than 100 proposed projects. Fehren-Schmitz’s project will…
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UCSF-Led Precision Medicine Initiative Funds Six New Projects
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – The University of California, San Francisco and California Governor Jerry Brown have announced the launch of six new projects for the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM). Read the full article.
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Children’s Hospitals Incorporating Genomic Testing
It is still in its infancy, but a genomic medicine revolution is underway in leading children’s hospitals, transforming the diagnosis and treatment of a growing list of childhood ailments, researchers said Friday. Read the full article here.
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UCSC goes bald to back childhood cancer research
By Jondi Gumz, Santa Cruz Sentinel Aurora Learned, 4, shared her mom’s lap with her younger brother Friday afternoon, watching as barbers gave her grandfather and her mom a bald new look. Afterward, the blonde tyke posed with her mom in the courtyard of UC Santa Cruz Engineering Building 2 as her dad looked on…
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De-extinction – Beth Shapiro
Beth Shapiro talks with RadioLive in New Zealand about de-extinction. Listen to the interview
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How to Clone a Mammoth (Or Should We?)
By Heather Goldstone & Elsa Partan Many scientists think we are in the midst of a sixth mass extinction, and it’s our fault. The idea of bringing back extinct animals has gotten more attention in recent years as labs around the world get better at sequencing their genes. Could we once again have herds of…
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Local group funds four UC Santa Cruz cancer researchers
The Santa Cruz Cancer Benefit Group (SCCBG), a local charity supporting cancer research and patient care, has awarded grants of $12,500 each to four researchers at UC Santa Cruz: Angela Brooks, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering; Melissa Jurica, professor of molecular, cell, and developmental biology; Carrie Partch, assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry; and Seth…
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Bulletproof Radio: Say GeNOme to Cancer with David Haussler
Why you should listen – David Haussler is a human genome expert and developer of new statistical and algorithmic methods to explore molecular function, evolution and disease process in the genome. David and his team posted the first publicly available computational assembly of the human genome sequence as collaborators on the international Human Genome Project.…
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Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity honor commitment
By UC Santa Cruz Public Information Office Two campus programs, staff, faculty, and a student are winners of 2015 Chancellor’s Achievement Awards for Diversity for 2105 for their efforts to promote diversity and inclusion at UC Santa Cruz. In presenting the awards June 4, Chancellor Blumenthal noted that the program, now in its 13th year,…
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A federated ecosystem for sharing genomic, clinical data
Originally published on Science Policy Forum Early data-sharing efforts have led to improved variant interpretation and development of treatments for rare diseases and some cancer types (1–3). However, such benefits will only be available to the general population if researchers and clinicians can access and make comparisons across data from millions of individuals. Despite much…
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Cancer Genomic Data Sharing Advancing Globally Though Challenges Remain, Survey Finds
Turna Ray NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Although more researchers and oncologists around the world are genomically testing patients and sharing their findings with each other, they are using different platforms, bioinformatics approaches, and operating under restrictive country-specific laws, a survey by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health has found. The GA4GH, an international coalition…
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New book by UCSC biologist highlights efforts to save Hawaiian monk seals
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office In 2009, federal officials monitoring the endangered Hawaiian monk seal population asked marine biologist Terrie Williams if she could care for an orphaned pup at her lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Williams, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, jumped at the opportunity to study…