Sanger Science
31 October 20243.8 min readArnav Lal is interested in merging clinical practice with infectious disease research. He has recently completed his year-long Master’s in Biological Science through the Churchill Scholarship, provided by the University of Cambridge. For his Master’s he conducted research at the Wellcome Sanger Institute on antimicrobial resistance and used genomics to study how bacteria pass mobile genetic elements around. We caught up with him to talk about his experiences before he moved on to his next step, beginning his studies at Harvard medical school.
4 August 20146.2 min read04.08.14 Artist Deborah Robinson wanted to go beyond familiar malaria imagery and create new ways of seeing the disease. Here, she explains her process
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10 July 20144 min read10.07.14 If we can understand the function of the proteins displayed on the surface of malaria parasites, we might be able to make highly effective vaccines
8 July 20144.3 min read08.07.14 Why did it take a decade to find the perfect partner for sperm’s surface protein?
2 July 20143.6 min read02.07.14 If we’re to tackle obesity, it’s important to understand the crucial differences between white, beige and brown adipose tissue
18 June 20142.7 min read18.06.14 For Yali Xue, a series of unfortunate events made the process of publishing her paper a rather more stressful experience than it might have been
