The Biomolecular Engineering (BME) Department within the Baskin School of Engineering features an interdisciplinary blend of engineering, biology, chemistry, and statistics designed to foster collaboration with other departments. This blend reflects our vision of the direction that biomedical discovery will take over the next two decades.
Members of the Biomolecular Engineering Department collaborate actively with faculty from other engineering departments and with the Physical and Biological Sciences departments of Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Ocean Sciences.
Slithering into history with complete banana slug genome
For the first time, UCSC scientists have sequenced the full DNA map of the Pacific banana slug—which could play a key role in conservation efforts amidst climate change.
BME research news
New software promises to make precision genome editing with CRISPR accessible to more researchers
Integration into widely used UCSC Genome Browser makes tool available to entire life-sciences community
Twenty-five years after the human genome project, a new era is dawning
Today, genomics is saving countless lives and even entire species, thanks in large part to a commitment to collaborative and open science that the Human Genome Project helped promote.
‘Selfish’ genes called introners proven to be a major source of genetic complexity
UC Santa Cruz researchers are studying the ways certain genetic elements hide and make copies of themselves, so they can propagate within a species’ DNA, or even hop from one species to an unrelated one in a process called “horizontal gene transfer.”
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