Science news articles about 'sanger institute'

  • Second genetic link to weight and obesity

    ... Metabolism) and Oxford University and is a collaboration between 77 institutions from the UK, USA, France, Germany, Italy ... Dr Inês Barroso, Investigator at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and one of the senior authors on the study. "The precise ...
  • Superbug genome sequenced

    ... . The research was carried out by scientists at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge and the University of Bristol ... is it resistant to antibiotics" Dr Lisa Crossman from the Sanger Institute and first author on the paper explained ...
  • Mutant gene causes epilepsy, intellectual disability in women

    ... is a result of a major international collaboration involving the Sanger Institute in Cambridge (UK), Wellcome Trust ... of 737 genes on the X chromosome, which was conducted by collaborators at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in the UK ...
  • Connecting cancer genes

    ... , Experimental Cancer Genetics, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and are published in Cell. The team used a virus ... of human cancers." The project was made possible by the Sanger Institute's high-throughput sequencing and computational ...
  • PKG-mediated gametogenesis in malaria parasites

    ... of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, has identified one of the molecules required for the activation of the sexual cycle within the mosquito: PKG ...
  • Origins of the brain

    ... of the Genes to Cognition Programme at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and leader of the project. "Although many studies have looked at the number of neurons, none has looked at the molecular ...
  • 15 human genomes each week

    ... years, the Project is currently in a pilot phase. The Sanger Institute is ahead of schedule and has deposited more than 300 ... learning, but we can already see that, through the efforts of the Sanger Institute and our partners in the consortium, the results will have a major ...
  • Discovery -- marsupials and humans shared same genetic imprinting 150 million years ago

    ... . The study was a large team effort involving researchers in the UK, from the Babraham Institute, the University of Manchester, the Sanger Institute and the University of Cambridge, in Australia ...
  • Defining DNA differences to track and tackle typhoid

    ... Professor Gordon Dougan from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and senior author on the study. "Genomes ... Holt, a PhD student at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and first author on the study. "Our new ...
  • Genome of a monkey-human malaria parasite

    ... in the study and the project manager at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. "Unusually, the key genes that we think help the parasite to evade detection and destruction by host ...
  • Unpicking the complexity of human disease

    ... of the Cancer Genome Project at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, led the team ... -Toh of Uppsala University in Sweden and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is analysing ...
  • Genographic scientists uncover new piece of Phoenician legacy

    ... , a Genographic research associate from The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said: "When we started, we knew nothing about the genetics of the Phoenicians. All we had to guide us was history: We knew where ...
  • New mouse mutant contains clue to progressive hearing loss

    ... loss in humans. A team from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK, working with colleagues in Munich and Padua, found that mice carrying a mutation called ...
  • DNA chunks, chimps and humans

    ... ," says Dr Richard Redon, from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, a leading author of the study. "By looking at only one 'reference' sequence for human or chimpanzee, as has been done previously ...
  • The genetic heart of the lipids

    ... , Head of Human Genetics at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and senior author on the study, "but this is merely the dawn of new understanding. New, more powerful studies ...

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