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Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Researcher Profiles: Krizia Chambers
Krizia Chambers, Graduate Student, Biomedical Sciences and Engineering 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. …
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Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Researcher Profiles: Yvonne Vasquez
“My lab studies rare cancers that occur in kids and young adults. Our lab’s goal is to learn more about pediatric cancers and identify more effective and less toxic treatments for patients.”
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Book club – Life as We Made It by Beth Shapiro
Monserrat Garduño-Castro, Nick Norman, Rebecca Trager | Chemistry World | Nov. 10, 2021 This episode is for anybody interested in how human beings have altered the world around us since we came on the scene tens of thousands of years ago. University of California Santa Cruz evolutionary biologist Beth Shapiro weaves fascinating and fun personal…
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‘Life as We Made It’ Review: Our Artificial Reality
Human minds and human tools don’t just reshape the physical world, but the very evolution of other creatures. Adrian Woolfson | Wall Street Journal | November 3, 2021 When the first European settlers arrived in America, huge flocks of wild passenger pigeons were observed in the skies. Read Adrian Woolfson’s review of ‘Life as We…
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Ikenna Anigbogu: Alumnus
Ikenna Anigbogu graduated from UC Santa Cruz in spring of 2020. During his time at UCSC, he was a Research Mentoring Institute (RMI) scholar, a member of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), a peer mentor for the Black Men’s Initiative (BMI), and an iGEM team member. He currently works as a junior research…
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Noncoding RNA has surprising effects on immune response and sepsis, study finds
A long noncoding RNA regulates the expression of inflammatory genes and has a surprising effect on vulnerability to septic shock in mice February 01, 2021 | Tim Stephens | UCSC When the body’s immune response to an infection gets out of control, the result can be sepsis, a life-threatening condition in which an overwhelming inflammatory…
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Could new COVID variants undermine vaccines? Labs scramble to find out
Researchers race to determine why variants identified in Britain and South Africa spread so quickly and whether they’ll compromise vaccines
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Interview with Mark Akeson, COVID-19 Mutations and You
Doug Erickson | Santa Cruz Works | January 6, 2021 We asked Mark Akeson to give us some insights prior this event. Mark Akeson is a Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and a member of the Genomics Institute at UC Santa Cruz. He is a co-inventor of nanopore sequencing which is used worldwide for SARS-CoV-2 genome…
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The Computational Genomics Platform (CGP) Provides Global Access to Genomic Data and Tools
In 2017, Benedict Paten and collaborators proposed the “Data Biosphere” as a means to substantially accelerate genomics and biomedical research by building cloud platforms where components are modular, open and based on community standards (such as those developed by the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH)). Each platform contains portals for secure access to…
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‘First line of defense’: UCSC’s COVID-19 testing lab ready to relocate, ramp up
Nick Ibarra | Lookout Santa Cruz | December 17, 2020 Already a pillar of testing capacity for both the campus and wider community, UCSC’s COVID-19 testing lab is prepping to grow as it moves into a new home. The UCSC Molecular Diagnostic Lab is expected to move off the main campus to a Westside Santa…
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Alumni spotlight: A UCSC Genome Browser alum continues to explore “the edge of what is possible” at Google
September 10, 2020 By Rose Miyatsu When Chuck Sugnet began his graduate research with Baskin School of Engineering professor David Haussler, the lab was in the midst of a desperate race to complete an assembly of the human genome before a private competitor, Celera, could patent it. “[Haussler and Kent] really had a vision,” Sugnet says.…
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UCSC researchers are taking on the coronavirus challenge on multiple fronts
From developing diagnostic tests to conducting surveys of infection prevalence, campus researchers are doing what they can in response to the COVID-19 pandemic Tim Stephens | UCSC | April 01, 2020 The UC Santa Cruz campus has been eerily quiet since stay-at-home orders went into effect to limit the spread of the coronavirus causing the…