Eimeria: the chicken parasite costing farmers billions
By sequencing the genome of this single-celled coccidian parasite, scientists hope to develop better vaccines to protect poultry from a disease that causes severe diarrhoea and death.
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Tree of Life
Darwin Tree of Life: Looking back on 2020
Despite restrictions, 2020 has been a busy year for the Darwin Tree of Life Project. We take a look at
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‘These lowly organised creatures’: Earthworm sample collecting at the Sanger Institute
Few organisms have, as Darwin himself wrote, played such an important role in the history of the world.
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Prising open the scallop genome
As part of the Sanger Institute’s 25 Genomes Project, the king scallop, Pecten maximus, had its genome sequenced.
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Sequencing and the Tree of Life
Progress and promise of the Earth Biogenome Project – a mission to sequence all known eukaryotic species.
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Fishing for answers in the brown trout genome
Brown trout are highly adaptable and its genetic make up may hold key answers to helping species survive climate change
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Hasta la VISA, genomes!
From ragworts that are too common and the tricky toughness of truffles to the trials of getting DNA samples a US Visa, Dan Mead gives his personal reflections on project managing the 25 Genomes Project
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Darwin Tree of Life: focusing on fungi and probing plants
We have much to thank fungi and plants for, and the Darwin Tree of Life project will help us to unlock even more of their secrets to improve modern life
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Sequencing All Life On Earth – Facts and Figures
Scientists have announced an ambitious goal to sequence all of life on earth. Here are 10 top facts that help to put the scale of the challenge into perspective…
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The quest to sequence all life
What will reading the genomes of all life on earth uncover? And how does the Sanger Institute intend to lead the sequencing of an estimated 60,000 species in the UK? Associate Director of the Wellcome Sanger Institute Julia Wilson talks about this ambitious project
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