From bacterial behaviours to COVID-19
Sushmita Sridhar has paused her work on a gastroenteritis-causing bacterium to help diagnose the virus that causes COVID-19.
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#SangerAdvent
For our advent calendar on Twitter, this year we celebrated our staff from around the world. Each day, someone told us how they celebrate the festive period in their home country.
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Flying to the Future
Dr Sophie Adjalley is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Marcus Lee’s research group at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Her research focuses on investigating the underlying mechanisms of malaria.
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Tea-time News
Hot tea has been linked to oesophageal cancer – but it’s not clear if it’s the cause. Studying DNA changes will help researchers find out.
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A Day in the Life: Bioinformatician – collaboration, cancer and all life on Earth
Understanding the nature of life on Earth has been revolutionised by DNA sequencing. In the past we could only observe what was happening, now we can read (and alter) the blueprints of life to understand health and disease at the most intimate level. Yet none of this would be possible without the unsung work of bioinformaticians
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Getting smart about artificial intelligence
Sanger researchers are harnessing the power of AI to extract new knowledge from the ever increasing flood of genomic data. The findings could transform medicine and biological understanding.
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I’ve never had chickenpox, what’s your superpower?
Gary Dillon, Business Development Manager at the Sanger Institute gives us his view on some of the powers and pitfalls of genomics.
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Genetic Disability, Experience and the Sorting Society
Our genetic information is more accessible to us than ever before. But what do we want to know? Dr Felicity Boardman discusses the issues around genetic disability, screening and society.
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