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A surprising new finding about telomeres enabled by nanopore sequencing could lead to potential targets for preventing degenerative disease
New study discovers cellular activity that hints recycling is in our DNA
Although you may not appreciate them, or have even heard of them, throughout your body, countless microscopic machines called spliceosomes are hard at work. As you sit and read, they are faithfully and rapidly putting back together the broken information in your genes by removing sequences called “introns” so that your messenger RNAs can make the correct proteins needed by your cells.
Baskin Engineering will lead regional hub of NSF Engineering PLUS Alliance to serve underrepresented students, faculty, and staff
Building on longstanding commitments to serve underrepresented academics in engineering, the Baskin School of Engineering at UC Santa Cruz has been selected to lead the inaugural Western regional hub for the Engineering PLUS Alliance.
UC Santa Cruz researchers’ tool creates ‘synthetic’ images of cells for enhanced microscopy analysis
Observing individual cells through microscopes can reveal a range of important cell biological phenomena that frequently play a role in human diseases, but the process of distinguishing single cells from each other and their background is extremely time consuming — and a task that is well-suited for AI assistance.
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A draft human pangenome reference
Abstract Here the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium presents a first draft of the human pangenome reference. The pangenome contains 47 phased, diploid assemblies from a cohort of genetically diverse individuals (source). These assemblies cover more than 99% of the...
Genomics Symposium
The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute in the Baskin School of Engineering is pleased to host a postdoc symposium to showcase rising talent in genomics research. Selected postdoctoral fellows will have the opportunity to share their research, network with UCSC Genomics Institute faculty, participate in career development workshops, and interact with current UCSC graduate students.
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