Genome sequencing and MRSA

In your AS year you will go on a trip to The Sanger Centre where a large amount of the human genome was sequenced.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22501-mining-mrsa-genetic-code-halts-superbug-outbreak.html

Here is a link to a story showing how work at this Centre has led to the halting of an MRSA outbreak at the special baby ward at the Hospital in Cambridge. MRSA is a strain of antibiotic resistant bacteria you study in Topic 6.