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01/08/2023

TRANSGENE project concludes with two final publications

March 2022 witnessed the end of the European Research Council grant that has funded the activity of TRANSGENE over the last five and a half years. The main task of the team during the last phase of the project was finalising two publications that reflect the overall results of our investigation: a special issue in the journal Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences and a research monograph in the series Medicine and Biomedical Sciences in Modern History of Palgrave Macmillan.

24/08/2022

Can data be investigated across domains?

A question that has persistently been in our heads while developing the TRANSGENE project is whether the conclusions that we draw for genomic databases are applicable to other forms of big data. With this in mind, towards the end of the project we organised an international workshop to address potential synergies and incommensurabilies in the study of data produced in different domains.

23/02/2022

New TRANSGENE publications across yeast, human and pig

Two articles and a book chapter arising from the TRANSGENE project are now accepted or published

16/01/2022

TRANSGENE project on (online) tour again

The Covid-19 pandemic substantially halted the dissemination activities of the TRANSGENE project. With the exception of some online events, most academic conferences were either cancelled or postponed until travel and lockdown restrictions were eased.

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