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• Coastsiders can expect more power outages
  Yu Zhang, an assistant professor in the UC Santa Cruz Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, pointed out that fire can still strike coastal communities, such as the Santa Cruz wildfires in 2020.
• Cellular ‘trash bins’ might be a key to reviving multi-cancer early detection tests
  Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering Daniel Kim discusses his research on the promise of detecting cancers early, when they are most curable, by finding extracellularvesicles in the blood with RNA sequencing.
• Hybrid AI Models Blend Deep Learning With Neuromorphic Ideas
  EE Times explores Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Jason Eshraghian’s perspective on how traditional deep learning methods and brain-inspired computing methods are influencing each other in ways that are pushing forward modern artificial intelligence.
• ’We couldn’t live without it’: the UCSC Genome Browser turns 25
  Nature covers the UC Santa Cruz resource that serves as an essential tool for navigating the human genome and understanding its structure, function, and clinical impact, in conversation with Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering David Haussler, Director of Public Platforms for the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Max Haeussler, Bioinformatics Programmer Angie Hinrichs, and Director […]
• UCSC Study looks into Tiktok Cooking
  KION456 covers research from Assistant Professor of Computational Media Christina Chung and her Ph.D. student Ariel Wang on how teens’ use of TikTok affects their offline eating habits.
• 25 years later: Inside the cut-throat race to decode the human genome
  Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering David Haussler, Executive Director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute Lauren Linton, and Director of the UCSC Genome Browser Project Jim Kent recall their critical roles in the original project to sequence the human genome.

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