Scientists may better understand and test for the genetic variations that cause cancer and other heritable diseases through the application of a novel strategy for securely sharing and analyzing genomic data developed at ...
Mar 9, 2022
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A team of public health researchers from UC Santa Cruz, Stanford University, and UC San Francisco published new research showing how racial and ethnic disparities in COVID-19 deaths across California changed as the rollout ...
Feb 4, 2022
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What can a few rainy days teach us about the economics of combating the coronavirus pandemic? Quite a lot, as it turns out.
Dec 23, 2021
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A novel compound similar in structure to the psychedelic drug ibogaine, but lacking its toxic and hallucinogenic effects, has been found to rapidly reverse the effects of stress in mice.
May 25, 2021
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Grayson Mullen was playing a virtual reality game at a friend's house when, suddenly, he noticed that something very strange was happening.
May 13, 2021
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Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a novel chip-based antigen test that can provide ultrasensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza A, the viruses that cause COVID-19 and flu, respectively.
May 11, 2021
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The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred genomic surveillance of viruses on an unprecedented scale, as scientists around the world use genome sequencing to track the spread of new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The rapid accumulation ...
May 10, 2021
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When the body's immune response to an infection gets out of control, the result can be sepsis, a life-threatening condition in which an overwhelming inflammatory response can lead rapidly to failure of multiple organs and ...
Feb 1, 2021
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For assistant professor of sociology James Doucet-Battle, diabetes research is personal. His grandmother was diabetic, and that's part of what inspired him to delve into the issue through the lens of African American experience.
Jan 5, 2021
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Researchers at UC Santa Cruz have developed a novel serological assay for the detection of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Dec 10, 2020
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