Six university research projects have been awarded up to $50,000 by UCSC’s Genomics Institute.

As COVID-19 continues to mutate, software developed and maintained at the University of California, Santa Cruz’s Genomics Institute will now be at the core of the primary tool.

The Genomics Institute is leading the way in filling the holes left in the first draft of the human genetic code. In total, about 8 percent of the more than 3-billion-base-pairs in the human genome has remained unsequenced in the two decades since that first draft.

Sequencing the COVID-19 virus enables us to track mutations and spread. It is the ultimate detective that can give us a history of up to 5 prior contacts, and what conditions caused the variant.

A summary of what we learned about the new COVID-19 variants. There is a Borge Queen we need to defeat. Shields at maximum. Read, watch the recording, and be informed.

Got questions about C19 mutation? Mark Akeson has answers! And join us on January 19 for our interactive webinar: COVID-19 Mutations and You. Your questions will be answered by a distinguished panel of scientists and community leaders.

UCSC Holger Schmidt has design a lab-on-a-chip to quickly and accurately detect COVID-19.

Our New Tech webinar on August 5 will feature Startup Sandbox plus 5 fast-paced biotech Santa Cruz startups building pandemic tools.

Better than the cover of the Rolling Stone! Santa Cruz Works and UCSC are featured in Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People.

An international team including researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute has completed the most comprehensive study of whole cancer genomes to date, significantly improving our fundamental understanding of cancer and suggesting new directions for its diagnosis and treatment.

Almost 20 years after UC Santa Cruz researchers made history by assembling the first human genome sequence, the campus has formally established the UCSC Genomics Institute as an Organized Research Unit (ORU) providing support for interdisciplinary and collaborative research in genomics across multiple departments and divisions.