by Tu-An Nguyen | Feb 12, 2021 | News
Nature | February 9, 2021 Twenty years ago, the Human Genome Project published its first draft sequence of the entire human genome. A sizeable collection of papers, their published research filled much of the 15 February 2001 issue of Nature, and represented the...
by Faith Williams | Feb 12, 2021 | Media, News
February 10, 2021 | Aaron Groff | KION SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (KION) Russ Corbett-Detig is a UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute affiliate. They’re helping the global effort of tracking the mutating virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic. “We’ve written the...
by Aleia Dela Cuadra | Feb 11, 2021 | News
February 10, 2021 | Katharine Wrighton | Nature Portfolio In 2020, almost 30 years after the launch of the Human Genome Project, Miga, Koren and colleagues published a paper describing the first gapless, telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assembly of a human chromosome,...
by Tu-An Nguyen | Feb 10, 2021 | News
The broken promise that undermines human genome research Data sharing was a core principle that led to the success of the Human Genome Project 20 years ago. Now scientists are struggling to keep information free. Kendall Powell | Nature | February 10, 2021 In July...
by Faith Williams | Feb 10, 2021 | Media, News, Uncategorized
A long noncoding RNA regulates the expression of inflammatory genes and has a surprising effect on vulnerability to septic shock in mice February 01, 2021 | Tim Stephens | UCSC When the body’s immune response to an infection gets out of control, the result can be...
by Aleia Dela Cuadra | Feb 9, 2021 | News
A visualization of 56 SARS-CoV-2 genomes. Credit: Martin Krzywinski/SPL Other researchers say that restrictions at the largest SARS-CoV-2 genome platform encourage fast sharing while protecting data providers’ rights. February 3, 2021 | Richard Van Noorden | Nature...