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Sepsis and precision medicine: is it all in your genes?

February 16, 2020February 17, 2020 Sanger Institute gene expression, personalised medicine, precision medicine, sepsis min read

Using gene expression data to stratify patients.

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Cancer across the animal kingdom

February 16, 2020February 20, 2020 Sanger Institute ageing, cancer, peto's paradox, somatic mutations min read

Cancer, ageing and somatic mutation rates across species.

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Sequencing and the Tree of Life

February 15, 2020February 19, 2020 Sanger Institute conservation, earth biogenome min read

Progress and promise of the Earth Biogenome Project – a mission to sequence all known eukaryotic species.

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Genomics in the cloud

February 5, 2020February 6, 2020 Sanger Institute big data, bioinformatics, cancer, data, pan cancer analysis of whole genomes min read

The huge, international Pan-Cancer project is the first large-scale use of distributed cloud computing in genomics. As genomics becomes a big data science, it is likely to be the first of many

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“If you know, there is a Nobel prize for you!” – Searching for the causes of cancer in Czechia

January 5, 2020January 6, 2020 Sanger Institute cancer, mutational signatures, mutographs min read

In a study spanning five continents, researchers are hunting for tell-tale ‘signatures’ left in DNA by the unknown causes of cancer.

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Causality and the genetic thesaurus

December 3, 2019December 3, 2019 Sanger Institute min read

Manuel Tardaguila is a postdoctoral research scientist in Nicole Soranzo’s group. The group focuses on the application of large-scale genomic analysis to unravel the spectrum of human genetic variation associated with cardiometabolic diseases.