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‘It had better be good’

June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 Sanger Institute human genome project min read

The draft human genome sequence was published 20 years ago today. We reflect on what followed for the Sanger Institute, and what the future holds.

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‘These lowly organised creatures’: Earthworm sample collecting at the Sanger Institute

May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 Matthew Midgley darwin tree of life, earth biogenome project, life on earth, sequencing, tree of life min read

Few organisms have, as Darwin himself wrote, played such an important role in the history of the world.

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New tools to tackle malaria: translating from cutting edge research to real-world applications

April 28, 2020May 1, 2020 Sanger Institute malaria, world malaria day min read

This World Malaria Day we look at three ambitious projects, backed by the Sanger Institute Technology Transfer Office, which are tackling areas key to eliminating malaria.

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Puzzles and Parasites

April 27, 2020May 1, 2020 MarkThomson MarkThomson contortus, fellowship, H. contortus, Haemonchus, helminth, parasite genomics, parasites and microbes, stephen doyle, ukri future leaders min read

Dr Stephen Doyle, in the Sanger Institute’s Parasites and Microbes Programme, has just been awarded a new UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship to use genomic approaches at population to single cell resolution to understand how H. contortus evolves in response to drug treatments.

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Tackling COVID-19 at the Sanger Institute

April 21, 2020May 16, 2020 Sanger Institute coronavirus, COVID-19, Sars-Cov-2 min read

Staff at the Sanger Institute have joined the fight against the global COVID-19 pandemic.

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Mapping the Human Cell Atlas – charting the body’s cellular world

April 8, 2020April 9, 2020 Sanger Institute cancer, COVID-19, Human Cell Atlas, single cell, T-cells min read

The Human Cell Atlas is being used to guide future research into human development, biology, health, and disease.

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

February 16, 2020March 4, 2020 Sanger Institute gene expression, personalised medicine, precision medicine, sepsis min read

Using gene expression data to stratify patients.

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Sequencing and the Tree of Life

February 15, 2020March 4, 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