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20 Things We Learned in 2020

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 cc13sangeracuk 2020, antibiotic resistance, artificial intelligence, blood disease, brain, brain cancer, cancer, cancer genetics, clones, collaboration, coronavirus, COVID-19, covid19, crohns disease, dantu, dengue, genomes, Genomics, glioblastoma, gut, heart, ibd, immune cells, immune system, malaria, mosquito, mosquitoes, near east, neglected tropical disease, pandemic, pathogen, pathogens, personalised medicine, plasmids, rare disease, rare genetic conditions, scallops, smoking, zika min read

This has been a year that none of us will forget in a hurry. The Institute is immensely proud of the way our staff have pulled together, and the work we have managed to achieve

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Xylem, Mentoring, and the Worldwide Fantasy Food Tour

October 1, 2020September 30, 2020 cc13sangeracuk min read

Dr Christine Boinett talks about Black History Month, her new international podcast on mentoring and her research on drug-resistant bacteria.

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From bacterial behaviours to COVID-19

July 16, 2020November 12, 2020 cc13sangeracuk antibiotic resistance, antimicrobial resistance, COVID-19 min read

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

December 24, 2019December 24, 2019 cc13sangeracuk min read

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

August 30, 2019 cc13sangeracuk malaria, meet the scientists min read

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

March 25, 2019November 4, 2020 cc13sangeracuk cancer, DNA, hot tea, Iran, Kenya, mutational signatures, mutographs, oesophageal cancer, tea min read

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.

A Day in the Life: Bioinformaticians at the Wellcome Sanger Institute

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A Day in the Life: Bioinformatician – collaboration, cancer and all life on Earth

March 8, 2019November 4, 2020 cc13sangeracuk bioinformatics, cancer, careers, computing, DNA, helminths, informatics careers, jobs, life on earth, vertebrate genome project, worms min read

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

DNA data has turned from a trickle to a flood of information that could transform medicine and biological understanding. Ali Cranage explores how Sanger scientists are using AI to extract new discoveries and knowledge

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Getting smart about artificial intelligence

March 4, 2019November 5, 2020 cc13sangeracuk AI, algorithms, artificial intelligence, computing, data, Genomics, machine learning, outbreaks, Salmonella min read

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?

February 11, 2019February 11, 2019 cc13sangeracuk personalised medicine min read

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

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019 cc13sangeracuk cystic fibrosis, disability, haemophilia, screening, sma, spinal muscular atrophy, thalassaemia min read

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.