What the hel-minth?
We explore how genomics is helping researchers at the Wellcome Sanger Institute to unpick the tangled world of parasitic worms.
Unravelling how parasitic worms respond to drug treatment
Parasitic worms transmitted through the soil infect an estimated 1.5 billion people worldwide and cause diseases that help drive poverty in tropical and subtropical countries. Wellcome Sanger Institute researchers, as part of the STOP2030 project, are using their unique genetics expertise to monitor the effects of promising new treatments to help combat these diseases.
Puzzles and Parasites
Dr Stephen Doyle, in the Sanger Institute’s Parasites and Microbes Programme, has just been awarded a new UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to use genomic approaches at population to single cell resolution to understand how H. contortus evolves in response to drug treatments.
