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The making of Europe
George Busby went to hear Harvard professor David Reich speak about his latest research on European ancestry in Oxford on 9 February 2015 Corded ware vessels from the Museum of Prehistory in Berlin...
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Wondrous diversity
Alistair Miles of the Kwiatkowski group writes about a new study of genetic variation in malarial mosquitoes. Alistair is jointly affiliated with the WTCHG and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. He...
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Making sense of sex
A study in Nature Genetics provides the first experimental evidence that recombining genes stops harmful mutations from piling up in humans. On the Oxford Science Blog, first author Dr Julie Hussin of...
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A genetic adventure with Robinson Crusoe
Dianne and her colleague Pia Villanueva from the University of Chile In January Dianne Newbury visited Robinson Crusoe Island in Chile, whose inhabitants have been the subject of her research on...
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Is personalised medicine worth it?
Georgina Ferry attended the Personalised Medicine and Resource Allocation Conference, organised by the Centre for Personalised Medicine (CPM, a joint initiative of WTCHG and St Anne’s College) and the...
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High-performance computing at WTCHG
In April 2014, under the supervision of the Head of Research Computing, Dr Robert Esnouf, the Centre installed a new compute cluster with 3.5x more processing power and 8x more memory than the system...
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Keeping pace with changing parasite genetics
Malaria parasites adapt at a frightening rate. To mark World Malaria Day on 25 April 2015, Roberto Amato describes a new global collaboration that has compiled the largest collection of open access P....
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Learning the art of genetics
This summer Dianne Newbury’s lab welcomed a group of ten sixth-formers for a week of work experience. Here Katherine Ferris (Aylesbury High School) and Jonny Hughes (Churchill Academy) write about...
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