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Car manufacturing, cellular biology and COVID

May 18, 2021May 27, 2021 Sanger Institute COVID-19, management, stem cells min read

Rachel Nelson, head of the Cellular Generation and Phenotyping (CGaP) facility, reflects on managing science at scale, including the lessons from industries as far apart as car manufacturing and Silicon Valley.

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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

Heart, human, diagram. Caption: Wellcome Images

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A breath of fresh air for oxygen-starved tissue

June 22, 2015June 29, 2018 Communications Team cardiology, cardiometabolic disease, cardiovascular, hypoxia, stem cells min read

22.06.15 Artificial membrane could transform the way we treat heart disease, says Rameen Shakur

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Answering age-old questions

March 9, 2015June 29, 2018 Communications Team ageing, cellular senescence, heterochromatin, stem cells min read

09.03.15 Why do we age? What’s happening to us at a cellular level? While exploring competing theories, Tamir Chandra and Philip Ewels stumbled on some possible answers

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Do stem cells have memory?

August 14, 2014July 2, 2018 Communications Team hIPSC, HIPSCI, personalised medicine, stem cells min read

14.08.14 Some stem cells may recall their origins. Daniel Gaffney and Foad Rouhani explain how genetic variation complicates the picture

Colin Barker and his Colinator Colony Picking Robot

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Colin’s Colony Collecting “Colinator” minimises mindless monotony

July 18, 2012July 2, 2018 colony picking robot, ES cell mutagenesis, sanger institute, stem cells min read

A new robot created at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute will spare the hands, eyes and minds of researchers from RSI, strain and monotony respectively