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Celebrating Organoid Research Day
March 22, 2023 Today is World Organoid Research Day! Researchers at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute have been working with brain organoids for years in an attempt to better understand the human brain. To raise awareness of these very special cell clusters, we put...
Braingeneers develop novel method to automate the growth of brain tissue organoids on a chip
Braingeneers develop novel method to automate the growth of brain tissue organoids on a chip The new system can increase reproducibility in cerebral organoid research and shows promise for lowering levels of cellular stress Emily Cerf | UCSC | November 28, 2022 A team...
New Center for Live Cell Genomics will Support Braingeneers Research
Tim Stephens | UCSC | September 27, 2021 The new center will bring together a broad range of researchers in different departments at UCSC, as well as collaborators at UCSF, Stanford, and other institutions. It will build on existing efforts such as the research on...
Braingeneer group publication explores neurological control of flexible robots
Braingeneer group publication explores neurological control of flexible robots Wednesday, October 21, 2020 | James McGirk Controlling a robot’s movement typically requires laborious programming. A team of UC Santa Cruz researchers in the Braingeneers group are...
Haussler-Salama Lab undergrads are awarded the 2020 Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award
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. David...
Nowakowski Lab submits their first pre-print! Single cell epigenomic atlas of the developing human brain and organoids
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]
New Genetic Clues to the Mystery of Your Giant Brain
Compared to gorillas and orangutans, our brains are 3X as big. Brain size is likely a big part of what makes us human. UC Santa Cruz and UCSF scientists recently made an important discovery shedding light on how we got big brains.