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Lab-Grown Brains Growing More Powerful
Scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz are taking lab-grown mini-brains into their toddler era, after demonstrating that brain organoids can process information in real time.
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Brain organoids can be trained to solve a goal-directed task
UC Santa Cruz researchers are exploring how brains learn, adapt, and improve, which could help us better understand and address neurological conditions.
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‘Petri Dish 2.0’: A new startup is bringing automation to biology’s most tedious tasks
Open Culture Science, a revolutionary new startup out of the UC Genomics Institute’s Braingeneers group, aims to accelerate the pace of biological research with their patented technology.
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David Deamer and David Haussler elected Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
The recognition is the highest professional distinction awarded to academic inventors.
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UC Santa Cruz is the top public research university in the world for highly cited researchers amid strong 2025 list
25 UC Santa Cruz researchers earned a spot on the prestigious annual list.
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Effort aims to uncover the learning and reasoning potential of brain organoids
The Braingeneers team will test the ability of brain organoids to solve tasks in real time
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Do humans and chimps really share nearly 99% of their DNA?
David Haussler, distinguished professor of bimolecular engineering and scientific director at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, weighed in on the truth behind the frequently cited 98.8% similarity between chimp and human DNA.
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Twenty-five years after the human genome project, a new era is dawning
Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote.
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’We couldn’t live without it’: the UCSC Genome Browser turns 25
Nature covers the UC Santa Cruz resource that serves as an essential tool for navigating the human genome and understanding its structure, function, and clinical impact, in conversation with Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering David Haussler, Director of Public Platforms for the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Max Haeussler, Bioinformatics Programmer Angie Hinrichs, and Director…
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25 years later: Inside the cut-throat race to decode the human genome
Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering David Haussler, Executive Director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Lauren Linton, and Director of the UCSC Genome Browser Project Jim Kent recall their critical roles in the original project to sequence the human genome.
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The Human Genome Project’s legacy is still yielding new advances
Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering David Haussler and UCSC Genomics Institute Executive Director Lauren Linton were quoted in a story by Tech Brew on the continuing impact of the Human Genome Project.
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Genomics Institute faculty and staff help create non-profit to center Indigenous Knowledge while accelerating conservation genomics research
Several current and former UC Santa Cruz faculty and staff have joined with leading experts in the field of conservation genomics to launch Wise Ancestors, a non-profit centering Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities as co-creators of biodiversity conservation projects