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“From then on, it was daggers drawn…”: Michael Morgan on a decade of the...
Dr Michael Morgan On June 26 2000, Bill Clinton stood in the White House and, with Tony Blair on a screen via videolink behind him, he announced that the working draft of the human genome sequence had...
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Sanger, science and genomics in the next five years
Professor Mike Stratton Earlier this year, Professor Mike Stratton became the third Director of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. A few weeks ago he gave a presentation to Wellcome Trust staff,...
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Nanopore tech promises genome sequencing ‘in minutes’
Scientists from Imperial College London have taken an important step towards developing breakthrough technology that could sequence a genome in mere minutes, and at a fraction of the cost of current...
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How new DNA sequencing technologies are unravelling rare genetic diseases
DNA - sequencing the double helix Continuing our series of posts from established science bloggers, Daniel Macarthur discusses exome sequencing and how this exciting technique could rapidly advance our...
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75th stories: Sir John Sulston and the Human Genome Project
Sir John Sulston at the private viewing of exhibits from the DNA 50 Imagine Photographic Competition displayed at the Two Ten Gallery. To mark the 75th anniversary of the Wellcome Trust’s foundation,...
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The detail is in the devil
Dr Elizabeth Murchison at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Credit: Wellcome Images. Two years ago Dr Elizabeth Murchison at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute told us about her work on a cancer...
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Uncovering the hidden mutations in developmental disorders
Mouse models are teaching us a lot about developmental disorders, but some mutations remain hidden because of their very nature. Tim Mohun explains how a major new genetics project is going to uncover...
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The end of a seven-year itch
Hookworm teethCredit: AJ Cann, flickr It started about seven years ago. I thought it was just a fleeting fascination but the seeds had been sown for a lifelong affair – I was hooked. I would tell...
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