1,000 species get their genomes sequenced for the first time
A thousand reference genomes of the highest quality have now been produced for diverse eukaryotic species across the tree of life.
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2023-09-13T15:32:34+01:0014 September 2023|
A thousand reference genomes of the highest quality have now been produced for diverse eukaryotic species across the tree of life.
2023-03-28T11:33:08+01:002 March 2023|
Dr Ore Francis is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. One of three inaugural Excellence Fellows, Ore is exploring the proteins that are at the root of all life on Earth, answering questions about adaptation and evolution along the way.
2022-11-07T10:15:48+00:0028 March 2022|
Meet Leia Zhao, a research assistant working in the Evolutionary Genomics group in the Tree of Life Programme.
2021-12-20T16:04:38+00:0020 December 2021|
Dogs, descended from wolves, were the first animals to be domesticated by humans, some 40,000 years ago. New research, using modern DNA sequencing, is unravelling the evolutionary history of our canine companions.
2021-11-22T09:58:38+00:0018 October 2021|
“They’re not cute or charismatic. They have toxic mucus. But I like nemerteans because no one is rooting for them – and we know so little about them.”
2021-10-09T20:45:32+01:0023 September 2021|
By sequencing the genome of this single-celled coccidian parasite, scientists hope to develop better vaccines to protect poultry from a disease that causes severe diarrhoea and death.
2022-10-14T10:21:36+01:003 August 2020|
Hiding in the genome of a newly-sequenced red colobus monkey, there was a second species - a parasite descended from malaria.
2021-11-13T09:35:28+00:0013 May 2020|
Few organisms have, as Darwin himself wrote, played such an important role in the history of the world.
2021-11-13T23:19:19+00:005 September 2019|
Brown trout are highly adaptable and its genetic make up may hold key answers to helping species survive climate change
Wellcome Genome Campus,
Hinxton, Cambridgeshire,
CB10 1SA. UK
+44 (0)1223 834244
Wellcome Genome Campus,
Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SA. UK
+44 (0)1223 834244