Lookout: UCSC gears up to begin search for COVID-19 variants in Santa Cruz County
By Nick Ibarra and Mallory PickettLookout Santa Cruz February 16, 2021 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: Positive COVID-19 test results from tests performed..
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The broken promise that undermines human genome research
By Kendall PowellNature February 16, 2021 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image above: @Nature illustration by Ana Kova https://www.instagram.com/anakova_/) Data..
UCSC expands COVID-19 testing to support community needs with gift from Bud and Rebecca Colligan
(Contributed) December 15, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo: A gift from Bud and Rebecca Colligan is providing crucial funding to expand COVID-19 testing..
New genome alignment tool empowers large-scale studies of vertebrate evolution
November 12, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA By Tim StephensUC Santa Cruz (Image above: Comparative genomics sheds new light on the diversity of birds and other..
UCSC Researchers Snag NSF 2026 Idea Machine Competition funding for “The evolution and diversity of the human brain”
By James McGirkBaskin School of EngineeringSpecial to Santa Cruz Tech Beat September 15, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Graphic above: Source) Project may inform..
Scientists achieve first complete assembly of human X chromosome
By Tim StephensUC Santa Cruz July 21, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA The first end-to-end (‘telomere-to-telomere’) completely gapless DNA sequence of a human..
How DNA revealed the woolly mammoth’s fate – and what it teaches us today
Kate WhitingSenior Writer, Formative ContentWorld Economic Forum July 8, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image source: UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute) UC Santa Cruz..
Campus marks 20th anniversary of posting the assembled genome to the Internet
By Alexis Morgan Alexis MorganCommunications Manager, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute July 7, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Photo above: A copy of the first draft..
UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Issues Statement on Racial Justice
(Source: UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute) June 10, 2020 (Photo above: The George Floyd mural outside Cup Foods at Chicago Ave and E 38th St in Minneapolis,..
UC COVID-19 seed funding supports UCSC coronavirus genome browser
by Tim StephensUC Santa Cruz June 9, 2020 — Santa Cruz, CA (Image: UCSC Genome Browser view of SARS-CoV-2 genomic datasets. Source: UC Santa Cruz)..
