Wellcome Sanger Instituteさんのイラストまとめ

“The biggest mystery is massive animals. Given everything we know about cancer in humans, they shouldn’t be able to exist.”
@AJTCagan on Peto’s Paradox, cancer and ageing in the animal kingdom

#AAASmtg #CancerResearch #SomaticMutation

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It’s #ChristmasEve! We hope that #genomics will help reintroduction efforts of the Water Vole, the UK’s fastest declining #mammal
#25Genomes #AdventCalendar
Partners: @WildwoodTrust
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Not a #ChristmasPudding, but another delicacy, the Summer Truffle. We have so much to learn from #fungi, read more about what they could teach us on #Day23 #25Genomes #AdventCalendar
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Partners: @SummerTruffle
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Bouncing back from the brink of extinction, the Eurasian #Otter is a freshwater dweller that can give us an indicator of pollution levels
#25Genomes #AdventCalendar
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Partners: @Otter_Project @cardiffuni @smithsonian
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The Small-Spotted Catshark has the largest of our #25Genomes (at 5.16Gb!), has a #sixthsense of electroreception, detecting electrical signals (such as beating hearts) of their prey
#AdventCalendar
Partners: @Geknown @NHM_London @NHM_Science
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The Fen Raft Spider can walk on water, and is one of the UK’s rarest animals, needing clean, fresh water to survive. Read about this surprising species on our blog:
https://t.co/0P03oEzK3j #25Genomes
#AdventCalendar
Partners: @WaveneyCott @UniofNottingham
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It’s Day 7 of #25Genomes #AdventCalendar! Grey squirrels have immune protection from a virus that threatens our native red squirrels. We hope #genomics can reveal how this protection works
Our partner: @APHAgovuk
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We know very little about the cryptic Brown Trout, but #genomics could reveal some secrets about their migration patterns #25Genomes #AdventCalendar
Our partner: @CefasGovUK
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Rather than #5goldrings, the Common #Starfish has five limbs that can regenerate, whose #genome may give us insight into #regenerativemedicine
#25Genomes #AdventCalendar @MauriceElphick
Our partners: @QMULSciEng @UCL @unifr @umons
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Happy December! On Day 1 of our #25Genomes #AdventCalendar we look at the iconic Golden Eagle, the first genome sequenced in out 25 Genomes Project, with the aim of protecting and conserving them #Sanger25
Partners: @TheDickVet
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