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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog. Our contributing writers to the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog. Ludmil is currently a PhD student in the Cancer Genome Project where he works under the supervision of Mike Stratton on identifying and understanding the mutational processes that cause cancer. Browen Aken is the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Ensembl. When genome assemblies are very fragmented, full length protein-coding genes cannot fit onto short pieces of DNA. With next-generation transcriptom...
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Karma Bacterium: New additions to the Culture Club | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog. Karma Bacterium: New additions to the Culture Club. This entry was posted on May 5, 2016 by sangerinstitute. And tagged Gut bacteria. Bacteria discovered from human faecal microbiota. Credit:. Is an Advanced Research Assistant in the Host-Microbiota Interactions Laboratory headed by Trevor Lawley. The group seek to understand the role our microbiota play in human health and disease and the interactions that take place between the host and the microbial community&...
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Socialising the Genome | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog. This entry was posted on March 14, 2016 by sangerinstitute. How easy is it to strike up a conversation about genomics? Does the average person on the street know enough about the issues to even care? A project called Socialising the Genome. The first time people might experience genomic technology is when being tested as part of routine healthcare and something genetic or inherited is picked up. Given that genomics is now becoming a mainstream source of data with...
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Personalised medicine – how to stand out in a crowd | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog. Personalised medicine how to stand out in a crowd. This entry was posted on May 24, 2016 by sangerinstitute. By studying the crowd, researchers and doctors will be able to find what makes each of us individual. (Image credit: Carine06, Flickr). Genes; mutations in which are known to cause breast cancer which runs in families. However, not everyone who gets breast cancer has a. Mutation and even within the. By sequencing thousands of genomes from patients suffering fr...
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Studying gene function through natural gene knockouts in humans | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog. Studying gene function through natural gene knockouts in humans. This entry was posted on March 4, 2016 by sangerinstitute. Autozygosity and rhLOF in 3,222 individuals. Count of number of individuals with mean number of rhLOF genotypes per individual. Credit. DOI: /10.1126/science.aac8624. We know that the human genome has approximately 20,000 genes which code for specific proteins. But what do each of these genes do? Loss-of-function (LoF) variants,. As they are cal...
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Stealth and sabotage | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog. This entry was posted on July 15, 2015 by sangerinstitute. Parasites invade host blood cells, causing major disease whilst shielding themselves from the immune system. Credit: D. Gregory and D. Marshall, Wellcome Images. Parasites – the causative agents of malaria – have infected humans for tens of thousands of years. Despite these parasites being some of our oldest enemies, we are surprisingly badly armed to defeat them. Found on the red blood cell surface) is essen...
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“Being a scientist is fantastic” | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog. 8220;Being a scientist is fantastic”. This entry was posted on July 1, 2015 by sangerinstitute. The Sanger Institute Fellowship, designed to support scientists who have taken a career break, has been renamed the Janet Thornton Fellowship in honour of Professor Dame Janet Thornton. Credit: EMBL-EBI. Why is it so hard for women to progress their scientific career and climb the ladder? Everyone has a life outside of work, Janet explains not just mothers and not just wom...
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Editing the Debate | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog. This entry was posted on March 16, 2016 by sangerinstitute. What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book? Francis S. Collins on the completion of the draft human genome. Sometimes in interfering with genetics, humankind has gone too far. Eugenics is never far away when discussing selecting genetic traits, and although it is comfortable to consign eugenics to dark periods of history that would be neglecting the d...
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cancer | Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog
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Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Blog. Turning DREAM into reality. 210116 David Wedge reports the launch of a new DREAM Challenge that aims to identify the different cells that make up a cancer Continue reading →. Immunotherapy: the latest way to treat cancer. Yong Yu talks about his research in immunotherapy, an emerging cancer treatment that exploits the biology of innate lymphoid cells Continue reading →. 010415 How do tumours move between organs? Is the playing field level in prostate cancer? 261114 M...
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