Molecular, Cell & Developmental Biology
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A ‘Third State’ Exists Between Life and Death—And That Suggests Your Cells Are Conscious, Some Scientists Say
“This is nothing new,” University of California, Santa Cruz plant biologist Lincoln Taiz, PhD and co-author of the letter, said in an email.
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NIH shake-up to grant decision-making sparks concern over political meddling
“My colleagues are asking who would agree to volunteer their time on an NIH study section if their ranking of grants will not be what drives awarding,” Carol Greider, a Nobel Prize winner and molecular biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, tells ScienceInsider.
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A research-backed defense of DEI programs
A trio of biomedical scientists at the University of California and University of Massachusetts have written a research-backed defense of DEI programs that was published in Nature Cell Biology. They assert that such programs broaden participation in and democratize science—ultimately producing more effective and supportive training environments for all scientists.
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California lawmaker proposes $23 billion bond measure to fund scientific research
Support for the legislation also came from John MacMillan, a professor at UC Santa Cruz. New approaches and datasets to help treat childhood cancer are made at his institution. Additionally, his university researches climate change and builds tools to combat a warming planet. Like others, his university also has faced impacts from federal cuts. “SB…
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How RNA Unseated DNA as the Most Important Molecule in Your Body
Some of these molecules might get transcribed only in particular types of cells or at a particular stage in embryonic development, so it would be easy to miss their moment of action. “They are incredibly cell-type specific,” says molecular biologist Susan Carpenter of the University of California, Santa Cruz. But because of that, she says,…
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UC Santa Cruz medical training partnership with UC Davis to launch with 6 students in 2027
UC Santa Cruz is launching a new medical training program in partnership with UC Davis, aiming to address a regional physician shortage and lay the groundwork for a future UCSC medical school.
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UC Santa Cruz researcher develops innovative CRISPRware software
Eric Malekos, a graduate student in biomolecular engineering at UC Santa Cruz with a background in computer science and mathematics, along with fellow Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology Department Ph.D. student Christy Montano A Ph.D., has created an innovative software program called CRISPRware, which makes the process of gene editing faster and easier for researchers,…
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EPA employees put names to ‘declaration of dissent’ over agency moves under Trump
“People are going to die,” said Carol Greider, a Nobel laureate and professor of molecular and cellular biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who also signed the letter. She described last week’s East Coast heat wave as evidence of the ways people are feeling the effects of climate change. “And if we don’t…
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Wake Up, America. Cutting Health and Science Funding Costs Lives
Nobel Laureate and UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor Carol Greider coauthored an opinion article explaining why billions of dollars in NIH funding is worth the price. The article calls on senators to demand that the Trump administration reverse devastating cuts to the NIH that will cause unnecessary deaths, cost billions in economic activity, and have…
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Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it
UC Santa Cruz Nobel laureate Carol Grieder co-authored this opinion piece stating that the administration’s new executive order will allow political appointees to undermine research they oppose, paving the way for state-controlled science.
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Vitamin D may slow a process related to aging, new study suggests
Carol Greider, a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz who won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for her discovery of telomerase, an enzyme that protects telomeres from shortening, said that she was skeptical of the new study’s findings.
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Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice
“One of the reasons I kind of like these papers is that they really highlight a lot of differences,” said Bradley Colquitt, a molecular neuroscientist at UC Santa Cruz. “It allows you to say: What are the different neural solutions that these organisms have come up with to solve similar problems of living in a…