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Institute of Genetics and Cancer

Institute of Genetics and Cancer

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Year: 2021

VIKING Genes – a hamefarin

Back in March, I wrote an article for an online DNA magazine to help push the message that VIKING II, the fastest growing Viking genetics study in the UK, was looking for volunteers.  It was a call to arms by study leader, Professor Jim Flett Wilson of Edinburgh University. Little did I know, six months […]

20th January 2021 0

Dr Kenneth Baillie

Using our genetic code to understand critical illness in COVID-19

The recent GenOMICC study led by Dr Kenneth Baillie, an Academic Consultant in Critical Care Medicine from the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, has revealed novel genetic associations with critical illness in COVID-19. As a new student at the IGMM, starting my PhD during a world-wide pandemic has been a strange and challenging experience. Nevertheless, […]

8th January 2021 1

What’s it really like being a scientist?

They say you should write about what you know. Asked to interview a scientist, I selected my two former supervisors. Raphaël Pantier, an experimentalist in the “wet lab” and Kashyap Chhatbar, a bioinformatician in the computational “dry lab”. I chose to interview them together because I wanted to capture the energy and enthusiasm of their […]

7th January 2021 0

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