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COSMIC: setting the path for tomorrow’s cancer treatments

July 17, 2019 Communications Team BRAF, cancer, cancer genetics, Cancer Genome Project, COSMIC, melanoma min read

From gene discovery, to database, to cancer treatment. COSMIC celebrates 15 years of fuelling cancer research.

DECIPHER: Fuelling Rare Disease Research

July 3, 2019July 4, 2019 Communications Team DDD, decipher, deciphering developmental disorders, developmental disorders, families, Genetics, Genomics, learning disorders min read

More than 15 years ago, a hospital doctor realised that bringing people’s genetic data together could provide answers for families affected by rare diseases. With the help of the Sanger Institute, the DECIPHER project has been helping families ever since

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What if medicine could be tailored ‘just for you’?

June 17, 2019June 17, 2019 Sanger Institute cancer, personalised medicine, precision medicine, sepsis min read

The information in our genomes is helping doctors diagnose and treat disease. But how far can personalised medicine go?

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Tracking a deadly shapeshifter

June 12, 2019June 12, 2019 Communications Team bacteria, Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance, pneumonia, poppunk, serotypes, Streptococcus pneumoniae, vaccination, vaccines min read

A global child killer constantly changes its coat to evade destruction, but a worldwide network of scientists is using genetics to get one step ahead.

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Breaking the mould – the story of penicillin

June 6, 2019 Sanger Institute AMR, antibiotic resistance, drug resistant infections, penicillin min read

From a contaminated dish in London to saving lives on the D-Day beaches of Normandy (via dedicated scientists in Oxford and Peoria), pencillin has saved many millions of lives

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We’ve got the power

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019 Communications Team biosciences data, cooling, data, data centre, electricity, genomes, heat, IT, life sciences data, power, pue, servers, simon binley, ups battery min read

Running one of the largest biosciences data centres in Europe as efficiently as possible requires cool heads and even cooler machines

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Infectious diseases make a comeback in Venezuela following healthcare crisis

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 Communications Team diseases, Healthcare, infections, Infectious disease, malaria, monitoring, pathogen, pneumonia, venezuela min read

The experiences of a friend of a Sanger Institute researcher reveal how parasites and bacteria are now threatening the country’s population

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Sanger’s super-sized sequencing scales new heights

May 1, 2019May 1, 2019 Communications Team 10 PB, bioinformatics, data centre, dna sequencing, genomes, Genomics, illumina, novaseq, petabases, terabases, uk biobank min read

We’re celebrating: we’ve just read the same amount of DNA in one year as we achieved in the previous 25 years combined. This dizzying speed offers unprecedented possibilities to unlock new understanding in health and disease