by yavasque | May 8, 2020 | News
Congratulations to 2020 Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award winners Taylor Real and Liam Tran, both mentored by Dr. Sofie Salama of the Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells at UC Santa Cruz and the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Scientific Director Dr....
by yavasque | Jan 9, 2020 | News
Kudos to Ryan Ziffra who used scRNAseq and scATACseq and found that chromatin state identifies cell states not apparent in transcriptomics in the developing cerebral cortex. Important implications for understanding cell diversity. [Read more]
by yavasque | Jan 9, 2020 | News
Chimpanzee ‘mini-brains’ hint at secrets of human evolution February 8, 2019 By Nicholas Weiler | UCSF At some point during human evolution, a handful of genetic changes triggered a dramatic threefold expansion of the brain’s neocortex, the wrinkly...
by yavasque | Jan 9, 2020 | News
Three UCSF Researchers Win NIH Grants for High-Risk, High-Reward Research October 1, 2019 By Nina Bai | UCSF The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded grants to three UC San Francisco researchers to pursue highly innovative and unusually impactful biomedical...
by yavasque | Oct 20, 2019 | Publications
Summary Direct comparisons of human and non-human primate brains can reveal molecular pathways underlying remarkable specializations of the human brain. However, chimpanzee tissue is inaccessible during neocortical neurogenesis when differences in brain size first...
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