Sanger Science
20 August 2024Embedding ethics into research enables scientists to maximise the societal benefit of their work. It is also an important tool for accountability, especially in genomics research. For instance, how are the data gathered going to serve the communities that have donated the data to research?
8 August 20245.8 min readScientists and parents involved with a pioneering childhood cancer charity recently came together to discuss the future of research into the childhood cancer rhabdomyosarcoma, from its genetic causes to treatment innovations. A promising new project - co-designed by researchers and families - will now mine hundreds of biobank samples to understand the genomic and demographic factors governing how a child responds to treatment.
22 July 20133.8 min read22.07.13: Over 600,000 people die from malaria each year, mainly children under the age of five in Africa. Katja Kivinen and colleagues are trying to understand and identify the genetic variants that increase a person's risk of malaria infection.
10 June 20135 min read10.06.13: How researchers cracked the secrets of the turtle’s shell and answered some of evolution’s most intriguing puzzles
4 June 20135.7 min read03.06.13: We can learn much about how cancer develops by studying the genomes of individual cancer cells, explains Peter Van Loo
21 May 20134.5 min read21.05.13: Qasim Ayub explains how a new technique he helped to develop is finding signatures of selection in human genomes and revealing surprising discoveries about European development
17 May 20133.5 min read17.05.13: Cancer genomes contain an archaeological record of the genetic events that have led to their formation. Ludmil Alexandrov talks about his new technique that is beginning to reveal this archaeological record and unravel the processes responsible for those events.
15 May 20134.5 min read14.05.13: Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as obesity, heart disease and cancer are a substantial and rapidly growing problem in sub-Saharan Africa and are projected to overtake infectious disease as the most common cause of death in Africa in the next 20 years. Georgina Murphy speaks about her experiences collecting data on these non-infectious diseases in rural Uganda and the challenges they faced on this mammoth journey.
