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Tea-time News

March 25, 2019March 26, 2019 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

Sanger Life

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

March 8, 2019March 14, 2019 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

Sanger Science

Getting smart about artificial intelligence

March 4, 2019March 4, 2019 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.

Sanger Life

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.

Sanger Life

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.