University News
- April 28, 2022 Linguist Sandra Chung elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- April 28, 2022 Unlocking a cure for carbon monoxide poisoning
- April 28, 2022 Afrofuturism takes center stage in the Institute of the Arts and Sciences’ Surge series
- April 28, 2022 New Google-funded research project applies computer science to aid bird conservation
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Karen Miga: Filling in the missing piecesKaren Miga, assistant professor of biomolecular engineering, co-led an international team of scientists to sequence the first truly complete human genome, covering each chromosome from end to end with no gaps and unprecedented accuracy.
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A Breakthrough AchievementThe 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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