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Following Late Pleistocene horse migration toward our sustainable future
Cutting-edge UC Santa Cruz Paleogenomics Lab was key to genetically tracing mass movements of horses reveals in the Late Pleistocene, providing new insights into how climate change affected this species.
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Ancient DNA research aids de-extinction efforts and reveals surprising dire wolf ancestry
UC Santa Cruz scientists worked with Colossal Biosciences to help reveal secrets in the dire wolf genome that contributed to what the startup is calling the world’s first de-extinction By Rose Miyatsu Earlier this week, Colossal Biosciences made global headlines when they announced that they had successfully brought the dire wolf back from extinction, or…
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David Deamer wins 2025 SETI Institute’s Drake Award
Genomics Institute emeritus affiliate David Deamer has been recognized for his pioneering work in astrobiology, specifically his research on membranes and RNA formation in shallow water environments. He was recognized for advancing new theories on the origins and processes of life in the Universe.
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Scientists program stem cells to mimic first days of embryonic development
March 20, 2025 By Emily Cerf The earliest days after fertilization, once a sperm cell meets an egg, are shrouded in scientific mystery. The process of how a humble single cell becomes an organism fascinates scientists across disciplines. For some animals, the entire process of cellular multiplication, generation of specialized cells, and their organization into an…
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World’s most highly cited researchers includes 16 members of the UCSC Genomics Institute
In a notable recognition of scholarly achievement, 24 scientists and engineers from UC Santa Cruz have earned a spot on the 2024 Highly Cited Researchers list, recently unveiled by Clarivate. Six UC Santa Cruz researchers have joined the list since 2023, when 18 UCSC researchers were honored. This prestigious list acknowledges researchers globally whose papers rank…
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How optogenetics can put the brakes on epilepsy seizures
In what could one day become a new treatment for epilepsy, researchers at UC San Francisco, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Berkeley have used pulses of light to prevent seizure-like activity in neurons. The researchers used brain tissue that had been removed from epilepsy patients as part of their treatment.
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Surprising new finding about telomeres could lead to potential targets for preventing degenerative disease
In a “jaw-dropping” finding published in Science last week, Carol Greider and her collaborators at UC Santa Cruz and Johns Hopkins Medicine used nanopore sequencing to demonstrate that certain chromosomes have telomere lengths that are consistently longer or shorter than others. Telomere length plays a role in longevity and cancer.
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Karen Miga named 2023 Searle Scholar to study uncharted regions of the human genome
Emily Cerf | UCSC News | May 18, 2023 Karen Miga, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been named a 2023 Searle Scholar. This prestigious award will support Miga’s research on constitutive heterochromatin, regions of the genome that have been previously unexplored due to their complexity.Miga aims to create the first-ever maps…
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Genomics Institute postdoc mentors budding entrepreneurs through Clinton Global Initiative University
Schneider has been a mentor for the Clinton Global Initiative University in the area of infectious diseases since 2018, helping students take their ideas for making a positive impact on the world from conception to reality. Each year, he receives a cohort that ranges in size from 15 to 30 students, who come to him…
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World Organoid Research Day
March 22, 2023 Today is World Organoid Research Day! Researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute have been working with brain organoids for years in an attempt to better understand the human brain. To raise awareness of these very special cell clusters, we put together the following Q&A: What is an organoid? If you’ve never…
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UCSC Genome Browser 2023 Update, Future Plans
This coming year represents the first in our new 5-year planning cycle. A major goal during this time is evaluation and adoption of a pangenome graph data format.
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Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Researcher Profiles: Allison Cheney
Allison Cheney, Graduate Student September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. To help spread awareness of the different cancers that impact children, we will be profiling a different researcher each week to talk about the cancer they study and how they hope their research will help in the fight against childhood cancer. What type of cancer…