{"id":580576,"date":"2025-11-19T14:37:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/580576\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T14:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T14:37:19","slug":"manchester-scientists-join-team-decoding-the-genomes-hidden-grammar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/580576\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester scientists join team decoding the genome\u2019s hidden grammar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a class=\"pp_cb_imagegallery_7578145\" data-sharepath=\"https:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/about\/news\/asset\/fb8b81ee-0056-4bf4-a5c9-1cc05bcbb3bd\/zebrafish\" data-uuid=\"fb8b81ee-0056-4bf4-a5c9-1cc05bcbb3bd\" data-sourcepath=\"https:\/\/content.presspage.com\/uploads\/1369\/fb8b81ee-0056-4bf4-a5c9-1cc05bcbb3bd\/zebrafish.png?10000\" data-uploadid=\"1798373\" data-filename=\"zebrafish.png\" data-title=\"Zebrafish\" data-description=\"\" data-copyright=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-attr-hash=\"f2203271a2aa7257b07fbd9f38f8baa1a12ca2b2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1920_zebrafish.png\">&#13;<br \/>\n            <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 30%;\" class=\"pp-inline-image pp-right pp-ml20\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1920_zebrafish.png\" alt=\"Zebrafish\" title=\"Zebrafish\"\/>   &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                Zebrafish&#13;\n            <\/p>\n<p>          &#13;<br \/>\n         <\/a>        <\/p>\n<p>Professor Patrick Cai and Dr Joshua James join a project led by Professor Ferenc Mueller from the University of Birmingham that aims to uncover the hidden grammar of the genome \u2013 the underlying logic that governs how genes are switched on and off during development. The team combines cutting-edge computational and experimental approaches to decode these patterns, paving the way for breakthroughs in understanding and engineering biology.<\/p>\n<p>The project is a collaboration between partners at the University of Birmingham, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute, Imperial College London, The Francis Crick Institute, and the University of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The sLoLa scheme is designed to support curiosity-driven research that furthers our understanding of how life works which could one day lead to innovation across sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith, BBSRC Executive Chair, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLong-term investments through our sLoLa scheme brings researchers with different expertise together to collaboratively pursue questions whose answers may reshape our understanding of the living world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    &#8216;;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Zebrafish&#13; &#13; Professor Patrick Cai and Dr Joshua James join a project led by Professor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":580577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[748,29325,393,4884,2465,79905,12,70,79906,16,15,29191],"class_list":{"0":"post-580576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-chemistry","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-manchester","13":"tag-manchester-institute-of-biotechnology","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-science-and-engineering","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-university-of-manchester"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115576875542552746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/580577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}