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Our 2021/2022 Highlights document

Over the past year we have provided new insights into human, parasite and microbe evolution, cellular development, and the mutational processes that lead to cancer. We supported the UK's national COVID-19 genomic surveillance efforts and delivered reference genomes for a wide range of UK species as part of the Darwin Tree of Life project ...more

 

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23 Mar 2023

Accidental Entrepreneur

In this third part of our innovator blog series, we spoke to Matt Hurles, Head of the Human Genetics programme and incoming Director of the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Matt defines himself as an accidental entrepreneur, even though he spearheads a number of innovative initiatives that showcase his motivation to ultimately bring benefits to patients.

16 Mar 2023

Cholera and syphilis captured in BioArt

How historical artefacts can highlight the progression of science and medicine.
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13 Mar 2023

New research writes the rules on CRISPR activation  

Researchers have started to map out the rules on how to use CRISPR activation techniques in the most effective way, assisting ...

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Leadership, accountability, visibility: these are the 3 key actions that a research institution must take to promote gender equality and inclusion. 

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The first of three @PacBio Revio systems has arrived @sangerinstitute 🎉

These will allow us to sequence #genomes for projects like @darwintreelife faster and at reduced cost - with each having up to 15x the throughput of current machines🧬

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