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Snail hotels, 3D printed robots and custom clips

January 11, 2021January 11, 2021 Sanger Institute dna sequencing, engineering, parasite genomics, public engagement, robotics, stem cells min read

Engineering solutions to genomic research

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20 Things We Learned in 2020

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 cc13sangeracuk 2020, antibiotic resistance, artificial intelligence, blood disease, brain, brain cancer, cancer, cancer genetics, clones, collaboration, coronavirus, COVID-19, covid19, crohns disease, dantu, dengue, genomes, Genomics, glioblastoma, gut, heart, ibd, immune cells, immune system, malaria, mosquito, mosquitoes, near east, neglected tropical disease, pandemic, pathogen, pathogens, personalised medicine, plasmids, rare disease, rare genetic conditions, scallops, smoking, zika min read

This has been a year that none of us will forget in a hurry. The Institute is immensely proud of the way our staff have pulled together, and the work we have managed to achieve

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Sequencing COVID – what now?

November 3, 2020December 4, 2020 Sanger Institute coronavirus, COVID-19, disease surveillance, epidemiology, Sars-Cov-2, sequencing min read

Helping to track coronavirus outbreaks.

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Sequencing COVID-19 at the Sanger Institute

October 22, 2020November 12, 2020 Matthew Midgley min read

This photo essay goes behind the scenes of the effort to sequence the genome of the COVID-19 virus at the Wellcome Sanger Institute.

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The race to sequence SARS-CoV-2

August 19, 2020November 12, 2020 Sanger Institute coronavirus, COVID-19, software developer, software development, technician committment, technicians min read

The Sanger Institute is built for high-throughput science – but the project to sequence coronavirus demanded more samples were handled more quickly than ever before.

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Genomes within Genomes

August 3, 2020August 3, 2020 Sanger Institute Genomics, malaria, malaria parasite, tree of life min read

Hiding in the genome of a newly-sequenced red colobus monkey, there was a second species – a parasite descended from malaria.

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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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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.