University News
- April 12, 2022 Watsonville Filipino history digital archive now available for public viewing
- April 11, 2022 Dean Celine Parreñas Shimizu to receive prestigious award
- March 31, 2022 First complete, gapless sequence of a human genome reveals hidden regions
- March 28, 2022 Local pumas don’t sense danger in places where they’re most often killed by humans
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Karen Miga, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering, co-led an international team of scientists to sequence the first truly complete of a human genome, covering each chromosome from end to end with no gaps and unprecedented accuracy.
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The first truly complete sequence of a human genome has just been published in Science and is now accessible through the UCSC Genome Browser.
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