UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute
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DNA-based liquid biopsies often miss the early signs of cancer which is why UC Santa Cruz Daniel Kim seeks to improve the diagnosis of early-stage cancers by creating a highly sensitive and specific RNA liquid biopsy test. Read more about Kim's work here: technologynetworks.com/diagnostics/ar…
Happening now: Join the Chromatin Club Bay Area hosted by Active Motif to watch Ph.D. Candidate Colette Felton from the Brooks' Lab present her novel computational tool which uses nanopore data to identify gene fusions. Register here: activemotif.com/chromatin-club…
Distinguishing cells from their background is extremely time-consuming for humans, but UC Santa Cruz researcher Ali Shariati علی شریعتی has developed an image generation AI model that can create the synthetic data needed to train AI to do this task more efficiently: news.ucsc.edu/2024/04/sharia…
Genomics has been a long, slow burn, but both Russ Corbett and Erik Enbody of the Corbett-Detig have been pushing to harness its power to share pathogen data in real time and leverage it to preserve biodiversity. Read more about their work here: engineering.ucsc.edu/news/genomics-…