by webmaster | Feb 16, 2011 | News
UC Santa Cruz bioinformatics expert Richard Green and his coauthors of a landmark paper describing the Neanderthal genome have been chosen to receive the prestigious Newcomb Cleveland Prize from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)....
by webmaster | Dec 22, 2010 | News
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office SANTA CRUZ, CA–A 30,000-year-old finger bone found in a cave in southern Siberia came from a young girl who was neither an early modern human nor a Neanderthal, but belonged to a previously unknown group of human...
by webmaster | May 6, 2010 | News
By Tim Stephens, UCSC Public Information Office After extracting ancient DNA from the 40,000-year-old bones of Neanderthals, scientists have obtained a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome, yielding important new insights into the evolution of modern humans. Among... by webmaster | Mar 14, 2007 | Publications
The human and mouse genomes share a number of long, perfectly conserved nucleotide sequences, termed ultraconserved elements1. Whereas these regions can act as transcriptional enhancers when upstream of genes, those within genes are less well understood. In...