Category: News
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2017 Competition: New Award for Science Education to HHMI Professors
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute announces a new competition for HHMI professors. We expect to appoint up to 15 HHMI professors and award each professor a five-year grant to support their science education activities. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute plays a powerful role in advancing biomedical research and science education in the United States. HHMI’s…
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UC Santa Cruz Live in Silicon Valley
Too many children die each year from difficult-to-treat cancers. The rarity of specific cancers, high cost of drug testing, and limited access to trials have impeded the development of cures. Today, the plunging cost of genome sequencing, combined with new initiatives to pool genomics data, the application of big-data analytic methods and global collaboration between…
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Leukemia study reveals role of RNA binding protein in driving cancer
By Tim Stephens A study of gene expression in leukemia cells has identified an RNA binding protein that plays an important role in driving the development of cancer. The protein is normally active in fetal tissue and switched off in adults, but it is reactivated in some cancer cells. This expression pattern makes it an…
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Personalized World Medicine Conference Interview with David Haussler
UCSC Genomics Institute’s director David Haussler will chair a session on “Data Solutions in Clinical Genomics” at the upcoming Personalized Medicine World Conference (PMWC) 2016 Silicon Valley, co-hosted with Stanford Health Care and UCSF on January 24-27. Professor Haussler shared some of his thoughts with the PMWC team about his work and on the dynamic…
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Mini DNA sequencer tests true
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ admin_label=”section” _builder_version=”4.16″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”4.16″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.16″ custom_padding=”|||” global_colors_info=”{}” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.22.2″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] By Mary Todd BergmanAbout our study Public access to Oxford Nanopore’s MinION™ USB-attached miniature sensing device enabled an international consortium to evaluate the technology and provide a standard protocol for its…
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UCLA research: deadly prostate cancer cells have stem cell qualities
By Mirabai Vogt-James Scientists at the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have shown that the cells responsible for generating deadly prostate cancer share some genetic qualities with the tissue-specific stem cells that naturally reside in the healthy prostate. The findings were published today in the journal Proceedings…
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No reason to retire
By Peggy Townsend, UCSC Public Information Office On a January day in 1969, Gary Griggs, then 25, donned a coat and tie and entered a lecture hall on the nascent UC Santa Cruz campus. What he found inside were 260 scruffy but idealistic students — most of them long-haired, many with dogs. Griggs, who had…
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UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute partners with Microsoft to accelerate biomedical research
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute has formed a partnership with Microsoft that will help researchers accelerate analysis of genomic information using the company’s cloud computing platform, Microsoft Azure. The collaboration provides the Genomics Institute with access to new compute, data storage, and analysis capabilities, enabling researchers to…
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Biologist Susan Strome to give annual Faculty Research Lecture
Monday, September 14, 2015 By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Susan Strome, distinguished professor of molecular, cell and developmental biology at UC Santa Cruz, will deliver the 50th annual UCSC Faculty Research Lecture on Friday, September 25, at 7 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall. Entitled “Beyond the DNA Code: Transmission of developmental instructions…
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Evolutionary arms race discovered in human DNA
By Jacob Comeaux, UC Santa Cruz science writing student There’s a war raging within each of the 37.2 trillion cells in your body. Microscopic war is not a novel notion—our immune system fights off pernicious pathogens all the time. But scientists based at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute have shown that our DNA, the…
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Dogs, cats, and big-wave surfers: Healthy heart lessons from animals and athletes
By Tim Stephens, UC Santa Cruz Public Information Office For over 30 years, Terrie Williams has been studying exercise physiology in wild animals: African lions and wild dogs, dolphins and whales, coyotes and mountain lions, as well as a few human athletes. She has put mountain lions on treadmills and strapped heart-rate monitors onto big-wave…
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Seagate gift supports UC Santa Cruz research on genomic data storage
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Researchers in the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz are working with industry partner Seagate Technologies on new ways to structure and store massive amounts of genomic data. Seagate has donated data storage devices with a total capacity of 2.5 petabytes to support this effort. “This…