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UCSC researchers awarded a record number of patents last year
UCSC | Tim Stephens | August 08, 2019 UC Santa Cruz researchers were awarded 26 new patents in the last fiscal year, a record number for the campus. The new patents include novel compounds with potential medical uses, innovations in computer chip architecture, and new...
Built from scratch
Inquiry @UC Santa Cruz | Ben Shouse | 2019 Vaccines are one of history’s most important medical advances, shielding large swaths of humanity from more than a dozen diseases. Worldwide, experts estimate that measles vaccinations alone have saved more than 17 million...
44 Gilliam Fellowships Awarded to Support Diversity and Inclusion in Science
HHMI | July 31, 2019 A good scientific mentor can help students navigate different career paths and plug them into new networks. A mentor can be a sounding board and an advocate – and they can also make the experience of being a scientist more fun. That’s a goal of...
Holger Schmidt receives IEEE Photonics Society Engineering Achievement Award
UCSC.edu | July 3, 2019 | By Tim Stephens Holger Schmidt, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UC Santa Cruz, has been chosen to receive the Engineering Achievement Award of the IEEE Photonics Society. The award recognizes Schmidt and his long-time...
Ban on Hunting With Lead Ammo to Go Into Effect in California
June 27, 2019 | Center for Biological Diversity SACRAMENTO, Calif.— On Monday California will become the first state to ban all lead ammunition for hunting — the culmination of years of efforts to phase out toxic lead ammunition in the environment. The statewide ban...
Detecting human diversity
Variation graphs facilitate genomic discover Katharine Miller | Inquiry UCSC After the first human genome was successfully sequenced in 2003, researchers established it as the reference genome. It became the singular, highest-quality, most well-understood,...
Gifts accelerate research, from the galactic to the microscopic
Gifts from Ken and Gloria Levy support biomedical discovery that may help cancer patients as well as research on dark matter halos, some of the universe’s largest structures UCSC.edu | June 04, 2019 | J.D. Hillard Professor Daniel Kim’s lab works on technology it...
Study reveals structure of a ‘master switch’ controlling cell division
Understanding the structure of the FoxM1 protein and how it works could guide development of new cancer-fighting drugs UCSC.edu | May 28, 2019 | Tim Stephens Unregulated cell division is a hallmark of cancer, and one of the key proteins involved in controlling cell...
NIH grant funds research on role of prion proteins in neurodegenerative diseases
Prestigious NIH MIRA grant funds biochemist & Affiliated QB3 UCSC Faculty Member Glenn Millhauser to expand his research on the function of prion proteins and their role in neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's UCSC | Tim Stephens| May 07, 2019 Glenn...
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