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Commentaries

On our work

Comment in Zendejas B and Fauza DO

Eshophagus engineering tackles function

News & Views. Nature Biotechnology (2026)

Kotsilti E

Engineered oesophagus transplantation in a pig model

Research Highlights. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology​ (2026)

Fieldhouse R

Lab-grown oesophagus restores pigs’ ability to swallow

News. Nature (2026)

Grimmet J.​

How micronutrients have shaped human DNA

Cell Press, September 10 2025

Kaiser J

Mystery hepatitis cases in kids linked to unexpected viral suspect

News. Science (2022)

Cyranoski D

Alarming COVID variants show vital role of genomic surveillance

News. Nature (2021)

 

Nelson MI

Tracking the UK SARS-CoV-2 outbreak

Perspective. Science, 371, 680-681 (2021)

Lo SW and Jamrozi D

Genomics and epidemiological surveillance

News & Analysis. Nature Rev. Micro., 18, 478 (2020)

Pennisi E

Chimps and bonobos had flings—and swapped genes—in the past.

News. Science (2016)

Hoelzel AR

The road to speciation runs both ways

Perspective. Science, 354, 414-415 (2016)

Hawks, J

Earlier mixture from modern humans into Neandertal populations

Weblog (2016)

 

Gibbons A

Modern human females and male Neandertals had trouble making babies. Here’s why

News. Science (2016)

Stringer C

A comment on ‘Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals’ paper published in Nature

Press Release. Natural History Museum (2016)

Gibbons A

Humans mated with Neandertals much earlier and more frequently than thought

News. Science (2016)

Callaway A

Evidence mounts for interbreeding bonanza in ancient human species

News. Nature (2016)

 

Callaway A

Ancient European genomes reveal jumbled ancestry

News. Nature (2014)

 

Green RE and Shapiro B

Human Evolution: Turning Back the Clock

Dispatch. Current Biology, 23, R286-R288 (2013)

 

Stillwell, RJ and Berry MJ

Expanding the repertoire of the eukaryotic selenoproteome

Commentary. PNAS, 102, 16123-16124 (2005)

 

Schmutz J and Grimwood J

Fowl sequence

News & Views. Nature, 432, 679-680 (2004)

Mulley J and Holland P

Small genome, big insights

News & Views. Nature, 431, 916-917 (2004)

Driscoll DM and Chavatte L

Finding needles in a haystack: In silico identification of eukaryotic selenoprotein genes

Literature Report. EMBO Reports, 5, 140-141 (2004)

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Genetics and Genomic Medicine Department
Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health

UCL

Zayed Centre for Research into Rare Disease in Children

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