Category: News
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Baskin School of Engineering showcases research advances on Oct. 18
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office Industry leaders and faculty in the Baskin School of Engineering will discuss the latest developments in key areas of technological innovation at the school’s annual Research Review Day at UC Santa Cruz on Thursday, October 18. Focus areas for this year’s presentations are big data, biomedical metrology, and…
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Study reveals genomic similarities between breast cancer and ovarian cancer
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office One subtype of breast cancer shares many genetic features with high-grade serous ovarian cancer, a cancer that is very difficult to treat, according to researchers supported by the National Institutes of Health. The findings suggest that the two cancers are of similar molecular origin, which may facilitate the…
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UCSC hosts ‘Genomics Gets Personal: Property, Persons, Privacy’ Sept. 27
By Guy Lasnier, UCSC Public Information Office UC Santa Cruz will convene a world-class panel of medical and legal experts September 27 at the UC San Francisco Mission Bay campus to discuss the fundamental ethical, social, and legal issues surrounding personal genomic research. UC Santa Cruz researchers are deeply involved at the forefront of historic…
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UCSC provides access to encyclopedia of the human genome
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office A massive international collaboration has enabled scientists to assign specific functions for 80 percent of the human genome, providing new insights into the mechanisms of gene regulation and giving biomedical researchers a solid genetic foundation for understanding how the body works in health and disease. The results of…
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UCSC research funding tops $140 million for 2011-12
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office UC Santa Cruz researchers attracted $140.3 million in external grants and contracts to the campus in the 2011-12 fiscal year. This is the seventh consecutive year in which research funding at UCSC has exceeded $100 million. UCSC’s continued success in attracting research funding has brought in nearly $666…
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Iconic Darwin finch genome sequenced in Genome 10K international collaboration
By Branwyn Wagman, Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering, UC Santa Cruz Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the iconic Galapagos finches first described by Charles Darwin. The genome of the medium ground finch (Geospiza fortis) is among the first of a planned 100 genomes of vertebrate species to be sequenced and released by an…
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Paul Koch named dean of physical and biological sciences
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office UC Santa Cruz has appointed Paul Koch to serve as dean of the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences, effective August 1. Koch, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences, has served as interim dean since July 2011. An internationally recognized paleontologist, ecologist, and geochemist, Koch joined the…
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UC Santa Cruz ranked 7th worldwide among younger universities
By Guy Lasnier, UCSC Public Information Office UC Santa Cruz is ranked seventh in the world among the 100 best universities less than 50 years old, according to an analysis by Times Higher Education (THE). UCSC ranked first in the world in the key citation index (30 percent of the final score) that measures the influence of an…
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Grad students present impressive array of research projects at symposium
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office The 8th Annual Graduate Research Symposium featured graduate student researchers from across the divisions explaining their work to a diverse and appreciative audience at the University Center on Friday, May 11. Topics included Hawaiian prison songs, Japanese-American history, habitat restoration, nanotechnology, stem cell research, and distant planets. “The…
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Updated tutorials on UCSC Genome Browser now available
By Scott Lathe, OpenHelix The University of California, Santa Cruz Bioinformatics Group and OpenHelix today announced the availability of free updated tutorial suites on the UCSC Genome Browser (http://genome.ucsc.edu/), a powerful and popular freely available web-based tool for mining genomic data. The two updated tutorial suites include a general Introduction to the Genome Browser and an Introduction to Custom…
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UC Santa Cruz builds national data center for cancer genome research
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office The emerging field of “personalized” or “precision” medicine holds great promise in the fight against cancer. If scientists can identify the genetic changes that drive each patient’s cancer cells, they can use that information to develop targeted treatments. But achieving this goal will require massive amounts of genomic…
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New DNA sequencer uses nanopore concepts pioneered at UC Santa Cruz
By Tim Stevens, UCSC Public Information For more than 15 years, researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, have been developing technology to analyze DNA strands as they pass through a tiny pore in a membrane, called a “nanopore” because it is just 1.5 nanometers wide at its narrowest point. Now, Oxford Nanopore Technologies of Oxford,…