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...
by yavasque | Oct 7, 2019 | Publications
Summary Continuous glucose monitoring from sweat and tears can improve the quality of life of diabetic patientsand provide data for more accurate diagnosis and treatment. Current continuous glucose sensors useenzymes with a one-to-two week lifespan, which forces...
by ktkhuu | Jun 12, 2019 | Featured News, News
UCSC engineers and genomics experts are partnering with UCSF neuroscientists to develop new technology for studying human brain evolution and development February 27, 2019 By Tim Stephens | UCSC The UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, in collaboration with neuroscience...
by ktkhuu | Jun 12, 2019 | Featured News, News
SANTA CRUZ, CA – January 10, 2019 Investigators at the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute and UCSC Institute for the Biology of Stem Cells are helping complete the picture of what makes us human. They hope that their latest research that looks closely at our brains and...
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by ktkhuu | Jun 12, 2019 | News
SciShow Hosted by: Stefan Chin Transcript:I don’t like to brag, but I’ve got a pretty big brain.And so do you.Compared to gorillas and orangutans — apes that are about our size — our brains arethree times as massive.That extra size is likely a big part of what lets us...
by ktkhuu | Jun 12, 2019 | News
New genes arose in human ancestors just before a dramatic increase in brain size and are involved in genetic defects associated with neurological disorders May 31, 2018 By Tim Stephens | UCSC A set of three nearly identical genes found only in humans appear to play a...
by ktkhuu | Jun 11, 2019 | News
How humans got their brains May 31, 2018 The Economist “HOW the human got his brain” is probably the most important “Just So” story that Rudyard Kipling never wrote. Kipling did not ignore people in his quirky take on evolution. Two of his tales describe the invention...
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