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Scientists one step closer to re-writing world’s first synthetic yeast genome, unravelling the fundamental building blocks of life

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Scientists one step closer to re-writing world’s first synthetic yeast genome, unravelling the fundamental building blocks of life

Prof Cai, Chair in Synthetic Genomics at The University of Manchester who is the international coordinator of Sc2.0 project, said: “This is an exciting milestone when it comes to engineering biology. While we have been able to edit genes for some time, we have never before been able to write a eukaryote genome from scratch. … Read more

Students trace University’s and city’s legacies of transatlantic enslavement in ground-breaking Manchester exhibition

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Students trace University’s and city’s legacies of transatlantic enslavement in ground-breaking Manchester exhibition

Emerging researchers uncovering hidden connections The exhibition has been curated by a team of University of Manchester postgraduate students, academics and curators, with the support of external researchers. Core to the exhibition is research conducted by a diverse team of emerging scholars who undertook the Race, Migration & Humanitarianism: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism in the … Read more