How fast does the human genome change? Scientists have attempted to answer this question by studying mutation rates over several generations, and they found that some parts of the human genome tend to ...

Scientists have pinpointed precise regions in the human genome where DNA is most likely to develop a mutation. At spots where RNA polymerase 'opens' your DNA to read and copy instructions – known as ...

Viruses are entirely dependent on their hosts to reproduce. They ransack living cells for parts and energy and hijack the host's cellular machinery to make new copies of themselves. Herpes simplex ...

Viruses can't survive on their own, and need a host cell to generate more viral particles and spread. So viruses can often manipulate the functions of cells they infect. Researchers have now shown ...

A member of the UCSC Braingeneers group talks with symposium attendees about their research with brain organoids. Photo Credit: Anusha Ravishankar. Twenty-five years ago, UC Santa Cruz played a ...

Every cell in the body holds a story written in three billion letters. For decades, scientists struggled to translate that code into something they understood and could use. On a sunny Santa Cruz ...

Twenty-five years ago this week, President Bill Clinton stood before a podium in the East Room of the White House, and, in front of an all-star lineup of researchers and dignitaries, made a historic ...

Course work and attendance at seminars and journal clubs are the major activities of first year students. Research in a faculty member’s lab or learning clinical genomic data analyses in a hospital ...