UC Santa Cruz researchers played a critical role in ensuring the human genome would be free for everyone, forever.

A global collective of interdisciplinary researchers working to establish a new community with algae as a non-human international research partner.

Assistive Sociotechnical Solutions for Individuals with Special needs using Technology to help people with special needs (PSN) maintain a high quality of life through technology.

In the next decade, spacecraft will visit the watery worlds of our solar system equipped with instru­ments capable of detecting complex organic molecules.

A hybrid biological-technological installation featuring a bio-driven artificial intelligence system.

Published in 1794, The Fly is English poet and painter William Blake’s reflection on our shared existence and eventual fate as it relates to a fly.

A visual poem that explores the phenomenology of personhood. Structured in 3 surreal digital vignettes.

Experimenting with cerebral organoids — structures grown in the lab that function like the brain of a developing embryo.

Providing access to such a platform with tens of thousands of human genome sequences.

Professor Ed Green’s technique to extract DNA from hair samples may help solve thousands of cold cases.

UCSC Treehouse Childhood Cancer Initiative centers on developing tools to analyze each patient’s tumor in the context of genomic data collected.

Genomics Institute is responding to the urgency of supporting biomedical research aimed at developing treatments and a vaccine.

An interactive, speculative fiction, text-based game created with the open-source platform Twine.

An artwork is a birth of a new world, a world that warms and shelters, that gives and connects. Brad Necyk UCSC Earth Futures Artist-in-Residence

Evolutionary and conservation genomics can help us understand what went wrong with extinct species.

Uncovering the mysteries of the human genome and exposing humankind to the benefits and potential risks of this information will affect all humans

Imagine walking down the halls of the Genomics Institute, and outside the door of every laboratory is a dierently colored QR code sticker

The new project funded NIH grant plans to address those shortcomings by creating a new “human pangenome reference” based on the complete genome sequences of 350 individuals.

Humans are often defined by their intelligence – their ability to harness their disproportionally large brains to “think about alternative futures and make deliberate choices accordingly”.

This is a project created by UCSC Art Professors  with the institute to document individuals behind genomics research.

Art-Science Residency Program and UC Santa Cruz.

The story of a fish's transition follows the tale of a curious clownfish in transition as they find their way through fatherhood, and into motherhood.

The outcome of an art residency with Science Center, a biotechnology incubator, and Integral Molecular, a vaccine and drug discovery company based in Philadelphia.

Fostering Innovative Collaborative Research through Explorations of Culture and Creativity

The study provides the most complete picture to date of cancer-causing mutations in all parts of the genome

The Art, Technology and Social Commitment group and students at Complutense University of Madrid created a virtual exhibition in various languages ​​and techniques to reflect on the human condition and what it is that makes us human.

What is a Nanopore?: Genomics and Single-Cell Sequencing. UC Santa Cruz Nanopore Group researchers invented the idea of nanopore sequencing.

This is the paradox of #bathroom art: it reveals the public restroom as an intimate space; yet it denies the voyeur.

The Center for Public Philosophy at UC Santa Cruz is creating a deck of playing cards that will catalyze conversations about Ethics and Technology, and they want your ideas.

An interactive AI performance in which the artist examines her own visibility through the lens of an AI facial recognition system.

As our ancestors, plants are more than just food, shelter, and oxygen producers. They have been intimately involved in shaping the human species.