A $1.547 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a powerful new supercomputer for UC Santa Cruz researchers in fields ranging from astrophysics to climate science. Principal investigator Brant Robertson, an associate professor of astronomy and astrophysics, said he hopes to have the new high-performance computer system up and running by the end…
Nanopore Research Heralds Arrival of Complete Human Genome
It’s been nearly two decades since a UC Santa Cruz research team announced that they had assembled and posted the first human genome sequence on the internet. Despite the passage of time, enormous gaps remain in our genomic reference map. These gaps span each human centromere. New research from a UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute-affiliated…
Structure of Human Astrovirus Could Lead to Antiviral Therapies, Vaccines
Human astroviruses infect nearly everyone during childhood, causing diarrhea, vomiting, and fever. For most people, it’s not a serious disease, but structural biologist Rebecca DuBois saw how devastating it can be when she worked at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. “There were all these young cancer patients who were successfully fighting their cancer, but they…