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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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We’ve got the power

May 28, 2019November 4, 2020 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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Sanger’s super-sized sequencing scales new heights

May 1, 2019November 4, 2020 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

Science in a conflict zone: tracking cholera in Yemen

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Science in a conflict zone: Investigating cholera in Yemen

January 2, 2019July 18, 2019 Sanger Institute cholera, DNA, epidemic, Genetics, genomes, Genomics, medecins sans frontieres, msf, Sanger Life, Sanger Science, yemen min read

In addition to the civil war, Yemen is experiencing the worst epidemic of cholera ever recorded. We spoke to Ankur Rakesh, a volunteer doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders, who travelled to Yemen in July 2017 to study the genomics of this highly infectious and deadly disease

How researchers cracked the secrets of the turtle’s shell and answered some of evolution’s most intriguing puzzles

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Cracking the secrets of the turtle’s shell

June 10, 2013July 2, 2018 Communications Team ensembl, evolution, genomes, softshell turtles, wellcome trust sanger institute min read

10.06.13: How researchers cracked the secrets of the turtle’s shell and answered some of evolution’s most intriguing puzzles