by Tu-An Nguyen | Jul 27, 2021 | News
Humans of BSOE: Meet Zia Isola Zia is the Director of UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Office of Diversity Programs, helping develop & manage programs that promote diversity & inclusion in STEM education & research at Baskin Engineering. UCSC Engineering |...
by Aleia Dela Cuadra | Jul 26, 2021 | News
Listen to the podcast: “The Edge Episode 13: Should We Bring Back Woolly Mammoths?” Passenger pigeons. Woolly mammoths. Neanderthals. They’re all extinct. But what if we could bring them back? And if we could, should we? Geneticists are exploring...
by Tu-An Nguyen | Jul 23, 2021 | News
Scientists Finish the Human Genome at Last The complete genome uncovered more than 100 new genes that are probably functional, and many new variants that may be linked to diseases. Carl Zimmer | New York Times | July 23, 2021 Two decades after the draft sequence of...
by Aleia Dela Cuadra | Jul 20, 2021 | News
Unique Fraction of Modern Human Genome Surprisingly Small, Comparison With Archaic Hominins Suggests At most, just 7% of the human genome is unique to our species We share most genes with Neanderthals, Denisovans, and other ancestorsAylin Woodward | Jul 16, 2021 |...
by Aleia Dela Cuadra | Jul 9, 2021 | News
Jef Akst | The Scientist | June 8, 2021 The Human Genome Project was a tour de force that resulted in the first draft human genome sequence in 2000, but it wasn’t actually complete. The work left sequence gaps that genomicist Karen Miga of the University of...
by Aleia Dela Cuadra | Jul 8, 2021 | News
Matthew Herper | STAT | June 1, 2021 An international team of scientists says it has sequenced and assembled the entirety of the human genome, including parts that were missed in the sequencing of the first human genome two decades ago. The claim, if confirmed,...