by be-webmaster | Sep 1, 2022 | News, Sequencing
Jordan Eizenga is a postdoc at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and writes about the shortcomings of the current human genome reference and what the Human Pangenome Reference Consortium is doing to fix them. Read in The Scientist
by be-webmaster | Aug 23, 2022 | News, Platforms, Sequencing
August 23, 2022 By Emily Cerf It’s a story UC Santa Cruz Research Professor David Deamer has told many times before: in 1989, while driving along a forested road in Oregon on his way to visit family, an idea struck him. Like many other novel scientific concepts, this...
by be-webmaster | Jan 12, 2022 | News, Sequencing
Since the first sequencing of a human genome more than 20 years ago, the study of human genomes has relied almost exclusively on a single reference genome to which others are compared to identify genetic variations. Scientists have long recognized that a single...
by be-webmaster | Aug 23, 2021 | News
Study takes unprecedented peek into life of 17,000-year-old mammoth Jeff Richardson | University of Alaska, Fairbanks | August 12, 2021 An international research team has retraced the astonishing lifetime journey of an Arctic woolly mammoth, which covered enough of...
by be-webmaster | Aug 11, 2021 | News
Can Dinosaurs Be Brought Back to Life Via Cloning? Experts Explain Ed Browne | August 6, 2021 | Newsweek Read “Can Dinosaurs Be Brought Back to Life Via Cloning?” to hear Institute associate director Beth Shapiro’s take....