Wellcome Sanger Institute Blog. Stories from the cutting edge of genomic research.

Sanger Science

  • 30 May 2023

    An interview with the Sanger Institute’s new director, Matt Hurles.

  • 22 May 2023

    Empowering microbiome research in underrepresented countries

  • 10 May 2023

    A representative reference genome

  • 21 April 2023

    World Malaria Day 2023: Investing, innovating, and implementing genomic surveillance

  • 19 April 2023

    A defining moment for cholera control

  • 6 April 2023

    Building a bioinformatics community to tackle genomic questions at scale

Sanger Life

  • 6 June 2023

    A new, unique scheme to support postdoctoral researchers at the Sanger Institute launched this year. Backed by the Institute’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion initiative, the scheme aims to build capacity after a period of leave.

  • 14 April 2023

    Celebrations, community, and a common aim

  • 9 March 2023

    Building Confidence and Careers: Research Institute Technician Symposium 2023

  • 23 February 2023

    LGBTQ+ History Month

  • 21 December 2022

    From creation to celebration: Behind the scenes of the Science and Sport Fun day

  • 14 December 2022

    The Sanger Prize: Taking life in a different direction

COVID-19

  • 31 May 2022

    Current status of coronavirus genome sequencing at the Sanger Institute

  • 1 March 2022

    Sequencing COVID variants: latest stats

  • 22 November 2021

    A Space for Science

  • 15 November 2021

    Covid Connections – Big Data in a Pandemic World

  • 9 August 2021

    From Mild to Mortal

  • 29 June 2021

    Covid Connections – Variant or Villain

Human Cell Atlas

  • 2 December 2021

    Dr Roser Vento-Tormo tells us about her work to map the cells lining the uterus in space and time, how it epitomises her love of collaboration in science

  • 3 November 2021

    A Cellular Landscape

  • 30 April 2021

    Championing Team Science

  • 2 July 2020

    Sarah Teichmann, an international pioneer of single cell research

  • 8 April 2020

    Mapping the Human Cell Atlas – charting the body’s cellular world

  • 11 February 2020

    The Human Cell Atlas: Understanding health to combat disease

Tree of Life

  • 8 December 2022

    Meet the software developers, informaticians and bioinformaticians who are helping to sequence the DNA of all life on earth.

  • 8 December 2022

    Brazil, bats and GoaT

  • 9 November 2022

    Sequencing anything, anytime, anywhere

  • 10 October 2022

    Orcinus orca: How a tragic stranding helped us dive into the killer whale genome

  • 3 October 2022

    Biodiversity genomics event returns

  • 7 September 2022

    Butterflies, peacock spiders, and rapid speciation

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